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Scores

Signal indices

Each 0-100 score is derived from the live result set. The cards show both the output and the concrete drivers behind it.

high

Attention Distortion

72
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72-point platform gap

Flags when the platform getting engagement is not the platform carrying most mentions.

tiktok has 11% of mentions
tiktok has 83% of engagement
Use viral posts as attention signals, not as volume proxies
elevated

Civilian Harm Pressure

61
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29% harm-label density

Combines corpus negativity with atrocity, humanitarian, Darfur, and Kordofan labels.

59% of all mentions are negative
1596 harm/frontline labels across the current corpus
85% peak negativity in humanitarian/Darfur campaigns
elevated

Spike Velocity

48
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3.8x prior avg

Compares the latest daily bucket with the prior average in this short history.

662 mentions in the latest day
176 average mentions before that
Early feeds can overstate velocity until more days accumulate
elevated

Narrative Concentration

45
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63% in top two campaigns

Shows whether attention is spread across the architecture or concentrated in a few buckets.

Sudan War & Military Situation: 39%
Politics, Diplomacy & Foreign Actors: 23.8%
Rapid Support Forces: 1K labels
elevated

Warfront Pressure

44
index
47% frontline-label density

Measures whether the feed is centered on armed actors and active fronts.

2.1K war-campaign mentions
1K RSF and 499 SAF labels
274 Kordofan labels
elevated

Foreign-Actor Pressure

41
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23.8% politics share

Shows how much the conversation is being pulled into diplomacy and outside-power framing.

1.3K politics/diplomacy mentions
776 foreign-actor labels
Foreign labels are 74% of the top keyword cluster
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Actor Imbalance

36
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2.1x RSF/SAF

Tracks whether the SAF-RSF actor layer is balanced or dominated by one side.

1K Rapid Support Forces labels
499 Sudanese Armed Forces labels
36% imbalance across the two main actor labels
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Coverage Blind Spot

0
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0 quiet platforms

Measures how much of the configured listening architecture is quiet in the current window.

0 of 6 configured platforms are quiet
0 of 9 campaigns are quiet
Quiet coverage should be shown as a collection gap, not hidden
Method

How the scores are built

These are operational heuristics, not ground-truth conflict measurements. They are useful because they expose skew and pressure in the current collection window.

Attention Distortion
72 / 100

Absolute gap between the top engagement platform share and its mention share

  • tiktok has 11% of mentions
  • tiktok has 83% of engagement
  • Use viral posts as attention signals, not as volume proxies
Civilian Harm Pressure
61 / 100

50% corpus negativity + 35% harm-label density + 15% peak harm-campaign negativity

  • 59% of all mentions are negative
  • 1596 harm/frontline labels across the current corpus
  • 85% peak negativity in humanitarian/Darfur campaigns
Spike Velocity
48 / 100

Log-scaled latest daily volume compared with the prior daily average

  • 662 mentions in the latest day
  • 176 average mentions before that
  • Early feeds can overstate velocity until more days accumulate
Narrative Concentration
45 / 100

60% top-two campaign share + 40% top-keyword share

  • Sudan War & Military Situation: 39%
  • Politics, Diplomacy & Foreign Actors: 23.8%
  • Rapid Support Forces: 1K labels
Warfront Pressure
44 / 100

35% war-campaign share + 65% armed-actor/frontline label density

  • 2.1K war-campaign mentions
  • 1K RSF and 499 SAF labels
  • 274 Kordofan labels
Foreign-Actor Pressure
41 / 100

65% politics-campaign share + 35% foreign-label strength vs the top keyword cluster

  • 1.3K politics/diplomacy mentions
  • 776 foreign-actor labels
  • Foreign labels are 74% of the top keyword cluster
Actor Imbalance
36 / 100

Absolute RSF-SAF label gap divided by total RSF + SAF labels

  • 1K Rapid Support Forces labels
  • 499 Sudanese Armed Forces labels
  • 36% imbalance across the two main actor labels
Coverage Blind Spot
0 / 100

80% quiet-platform share + 20% quiet-campaign share

  • 0 of 6 configured platforms are quiet
  • 0 of 9 campaigns are quiet
  • Quiet coverage should be shown as a collection gap, not hidden