What is Shadex?
Shadex monitors publicly available sources, filters noise, and turns separate news items into signals, Story Maps, and reports.
FAQ
Quick guide for alpha testers: what Shadex does, how to read signals, and why source attribution is mandatory.
What is an Alert?
An Alert is what you want Shadex to watch: a brand, person, market, risk, country, event, or plain-language topic.
What is a Signal?
A Signal is a filtered update that includes the source, date, tone, why it matched, and a link back to the publisher.
What is Story Map?
Story Map groups separate publications into one event and shows who confirms, repeats, disputes, or frames the story differently.
What are Reports?
Reports summarize saved Shadex deliveries for a chosen period. They use headlines, short briefs, source names, and links.
Why are source links mandatory?
Shadex attributes claims to sources and links back to original publishers. Full articles are not copied or re-hosted.
What does trust score mean?
Trust is an internal source weight, not a percentage of truth. It considers source type, editorial role, original reporting, noise, rewrite risk, and history.
Why can one item be marked early?
A single Telegram post, PR platform item, aggregator link, or unknown source can be useful as an early signal, but it is not strong confirmation by itself.
Why can an Alert stay quiet?
Freshness, duplicates, weak entity matches, source quality, throttling, and legal/sensitive-topic rules can all stop a noisy item from being delivered.
How does feedback help?
Useful, Noise, and Duplicate feedback helps tune relevance, diagnose quiet alerts, and improve future source and Story Map decisions.
Does Shadex make claims itself?
For sensitive topics, Shadex should phrase facts as source-attributed summaries: what a source reported, alleged, denied, or confirmed.