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The bounded transcript pilot behind “Following the Evidence Through an Influence Investigation.”

Assistant-assisted historical research. Read the finding together with its scope and limitations.

A bounded question

Do the selected Rumble transcripts contain an identifiable discussion of the March 22 Moscow/Crocus attack or corresponding Ukraine/U.S.-blame narrative described in paragraph 37(c) of the indictment?

Material
34 transcript records from a 560-record dataset
Window
15–29 March 2024, inclusive, by stored calendar date

The finding

No identifiable discussion of the March 22 Moscow/Crocus attack or corresponding Ukraine/U.S.-blame passage was found in the reviewed contexts of this bounded transcript screen.

This does not establish that no such content exists or that the wider allegations are false.

Limits that stay with the result

  • No exhaustive claim about all Tenet content, every platform, dates outside the selected window, deleted material, or material absent from this dataset.
  • No full end-to-end reading of every selected transcript and no independent verification of original video/audio or on-screen text. Nonempty fields do not establish complete or accurate transcription.
  • The six primary search categories, supplementary categories, and additional broad search are retrieval aids. No claim that the chosen vocabulary captures every possible expression of the narrative.
  • Supplementary pass counts may overlap other passes. Unique video IDs may contain repeated passages. Do not count records as independent statements.
  • The legal material is an allegation, not a conviction or an independently authenticated archive of the underlying messages. No 2026 court disposition is established.
  • The dataset authors supply the Tenet/case association. The article does not independently establish identities concealed by anonymous indictment labels.
  • No finding about creator knowledge, intent, wider affiliation, audience persuasion, or election outcomes.
  • No inference that the wider allegations are false from failure to retrieve a matching passage.
  • Transcript topic paraphrases classify context; this research does not endorse or fact-check every statement made inside those passages.
  • Rumble URLs are carried over from dataset metadata and were not checked for current availability. Use the public archived JSON to verify the calculations and text locations.

Claim-by-claim evidence

C01An assistant-assisted exploratory exercise examined a bounded historical transcript slice; no interviews, private access, or independent audio/video verification were undertaken.

Evidence: First-party method disclosure

Exact location: Methods and review coverage

Sources: R1

Limit: Do not attribute interviews, forensic discovery, or personal reporting work to a named author.

C02The 2024 indictment alleges RT funding and direction, and describes a March 23 request for attack coverage blaming Ukraine and the U.S., followed by a response expressing willingness to cover it.

Evidence: Official allegation

Exact location: Paragraphs 1–2, p. 1; paragraph 37(c), p. 25

Sources: S2

Limit: An alleged request and reply do not independently establish a published item, a creator’s knowledge, or a conviction.

C03DOJ announced the indictment September 4, 2024, and stated the presumption of innocence.

Evidence: Verified content of official announcement

Exact location: Dateline, opening paragraph, final paragraph

Sources: S1

Limit: No present-day case-status finding is made. A fresh search of this historical page is not a docket-status check.

C04Version 2 identifies four creators and contains 560 video records; the analyzed 20,714,764-byte file matches the repository MD5.

Evidence: Published dataset metadata and reproduced calculation

Exact location: Authors/Creators; Files; checksum and corpus checks below

Sources: S3, R1

Limit: Hash verification establishes matching downloaded bytes under the stated checksum, not truth or completeness of content. 560 records are not 560 independent statements.

C05The inclusive stored-date filter March 15–29, 2024 yields 34 nonempty transcript records; comments were excluded.

Evidence: Reproduced calculation

Exact location: Date selection and inclusion records below; original JSON fields video_date and transcript

Sources: R1, S3

Limit: Uses first ten stored date characters without timezone conversion. Does not infer recording dates or completeness of transcripts.

C06Initial screening matched 11 records: 22 terror-stem occurrences and 6 Ukraine occurrences; Moscow, Crocus, ISIS, and Islamic State had zero occurrences.

Evidence: Reproduced retrieval counts

Exact location: Primary patterns, record counts, and primary match locators below

Sources: R1, S3

Limit: Occurrences and matching records have different denominators. These are not counts of disinformation, influence events, or incident-related statements.

C07Reviewed initial-screen contexts concerned unrelated subjects; no identifiable target-incident or corresponding Ukraine/U.S.-blame passage was found.

Evidence: Bounded contextual interpretation

Exact location: Primary record classifications and exact locators below

Sources: R1, S3

Limit: Do not generalize to every statement in every transcript or all Tenet output. Topic summaries do not verify or endorse the underlying speakers’ claims.

C08Supplementary searches produced only unrelated reviewed contexts; broad stems captured footwear and Russell.

Evidence: Bounded contextual interpretation with reproduced retrieval

Exact location: Supplementary patterns and match locators below; v4m2vzu footwear contexts and v4kusmu Russell contexts

Sources: R1, S3

Limit: The 30 category matches and 67 additional matches overlap with other retrieval passes; they are not 97 distinct independent passages. Expanded keywords remain nonexhaustive.

C09A March 24 record repeats portions of a March 21 immigration/policing passage; a March 28 record repeats a Ukraine passage in a March 22 record.

Evidence: Direct comparison of archived transcript strings

Exact location: Duplicate locators below for v4koo1u/v4kwzoi and v4kvtpo/v4m2gl3

Sources: R1, S3

Limit: Substantially repeated passages, not a claim the entire recordings are identical. Original video/audio unverified. The March 22 record cannot be placed before the attack using its stored date alone.

C1024 selected records use timezone-naive midnight strings; 10 use timezone-aware timestamps; all 4 March 22 records are in the naive group.

Evidence: Reproduced metadata observation

Exact location: Date precision checks and inclusion records below

Sources: R1, S3

Limit: Naive strings cannot establish precise within-day upload order. Even precise upload timestamps do not establish recording time.

C11The indictment separately alleges posting attack footage to X; the Rumble pilot did not test that claim.

Evidence: Official allegation plus scope observation

Exact location: Paragraph 37(b), pp. 24–25; pilot scope

Sources: S2, R1

Limit: Do not conflate that alleged X upload with the later alleged creator-commentary request in paragraph 37(c).

C12This exercise makes no determination about any person’s intent, knowledge, audience effect, or truth of the wider allegations.

Evidence: Limit of the research design

Exact location: Methods and limitations below

Sources: R1

Limit: Unsearched, missing, mistranscribed, and nonverbal material remain possible explanations for non-retrieval. It is not proof that no such content exists.

C13Dataset authors frame their Tenet collection around the federal case, while the indictment itself calls the company U.S. Company-1.

Evidence: Attributed research framing and direct document observation

Exact location: Paper Introduction, first paragraph; indictment paragraph 1, p. 1

Sources: S4, S2

Limit: This article follows the dataset authors’ framing; it does not independently resolve the indictment’s anonymous company or commentator labels.

C14The historical incident used to define the target occurred March 22, 2024 at Crocus City Hall in the Moscow Region.

Evidence: Contemporary official record

Exact location: First full paragraph

Sources: S5

Limit: Used only for incident identification; not independent proof of perpetrator identity.

Reproduction steps

  1. Download the specific version-2 file from S3. File name: rumble_TENETmedia_videos_01-20-25_final.json. Verify MD5 ab2ecb15468b04f139d6d2f2c8079de0 and byte length 20714764.
  2. Parse the JSON object; analyze its values. There are 560 values and 560 unique video_id fields. Do not include user comments in text searches.
  3. Select records for which 2024-03-15 <= video_date[:10] <= 2024-03-29. Do not convert naive dates to UTC. Sort by the first ten date characters, then video_id. This produces the 34 IDs listed below.
  4. Search only each selected transcript field, case-insensitively, with the exact primary patterns listed below. Count occurrences separately from the number of records containing any occurrence.
  5. For initial-pattern review, retrieve 700 characters before and 900 characters after each match, clipping at transcript boundaries and merging overlapping context intervals. Inspect surrounding text and enlarge context when necessary to identify the event, topic, speaker role, quoted material, or rejection.
  6. Rerun the supplementary patterns by category, and then the additional broad pattern. The saved supplementary locations identify windows used in the prior contextual review; supplementary category contexts normally extend 300 characters before and 450 after each match, while additional broad contexts extend 150 before and 250 after. Inspect additional surrounding transcript text if needed.
  7. Compare the repeated-passage anchor slices identified below using zero-based Unicode character positions, end-exclusive. These are not byte positions or video timestamps. Check wider context before describing a repeated passage.
  8. Keep result wording bounded to retrieval and contextual review. A stricter replication could read all 34 full transcripts and verify original recordings, but those steps are proposed extensions and were not completed in this pilot.

Zero-based Unicode character offsets, end-exclusive, in the original JSON transcript field. Not bytes or media timestamps.

Search record & factual locators

The records below preserve the exact search choices and locations used in the pilot. They contain no source transcript excerpts or user comments.

Dataset file identity
File
rumble_TENETmedia_videos_01-20-25_final.json
MD5 checksum
ab2ecb15468b04f139d6d2f2c8079de0
Bytes
20714764
Records
560
Unique video IDs
560
Primary search expressions
Moscow
\bmoscow\b
Crocus
\bcrocus\b
terror
\bterror\w*\b
Ukraine
\bukraine\b
ISIS
\bisis\b
Islamic State
\bislamic\s+state\b
Supplementary search expressions
Russia broad
\bruss\w*\b|\bputin\b|\bkremlin\b|\bmosk\w*\b|\bmosco\w*\b
Ukraine broad
\bukrain\w*\b|\bkyiv\b|\bkiev\b|\bzelensk\w*\b
venue and specific incident
\bcroc\w*\b|\bconcert\w*\b|\bmusic\s+venue\b|\bkrasnogorsk\b|\bpiknik\b|\bpicnic\b|\bcity hall\b
Islamic group
\bisil\b|\bdaesh\b|\bis\W*k\b|\bisis\b|\bislam\w*\b|\btajik\w*\b|\bkhorasan\b
violence
\bmassacr\w*\b|\bgunm[ae]n\b|\bmass\s+(?:shooting|casualt\w*)\b|\bfalse[ -]flag\b
Additional broad search expression

\battack\w*\b|\bembassy\b|\bintelligence\b|\bcia\b|\btheater\b|\btheatre\b|\bshoot\w*\b|\bshooting\w*\b

All 34 included records and primary matches

Stored date strings were selected by their first 10 characters. Naive midnight values cannot establish upload time or ordering relative to the attack/directive. Metadata dates do not establish recording time. Later uploads can repeat earlier segments. All 34 transcripts are nonempty, but transcription completeness and accuracy have not been established.

v4jglp9

Stored date: 2024-03-15 00:00:00
Precision: naive datetime; appears date-level
Transcript characters: 10399

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 0, Ukraine: 0, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

No primary-pattern match. Supplementary retrieval was included in the bounded review.

v4jib9l

Stored date: 2024-03-15 00:00:00
Precision: naive datetime; appears date-level
Transcript characters: 15310

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 3, Ukraine: 0, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

Haiti gang violence and the presenter discussing accusations against herself; terror and massacred language unrelated to target incident.

[
  {
    "term": "terror",
    "start": 3598,
    "end": 3607
  },
  {
    "term": "terror",
    "start": 4915,
    "end": 4924
  },
  {
    "term": "terror",
    "start": 14366,
    "end": 14376
  }
]

v4jm295

Stored date: 2024-03-16 00:00:00
Precision: naive datetime; appears date-level
Transcript characters: 12675

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 1, Ukraine: 0, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

NYC subway shooting.

[
  {
    "term": "terror",
    "start": 6562,
    "end": 6568
  }
]

v4k0bll

Stored date: 2024-03-18T17:00:41+00:00
Precision: timezone-aware timestamp
Transcript characters: 40339

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 0, Ukraine: 0, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

No primary-pattern match. Supplementary retrieval was included in the bounded review.

v4k2hfu

Stored date: 2024-03-18 00:00:00
Precision: naive datetime; appears date-level
Transcript characters: 19752

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 0, Ukraine: 0, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

No primary-pattern match. Supplementary retrieval was included in the bounded review.

v4k7xxf

Stored date: 2024-03-19 00:00:00
Precision: naive datetime; appears date-level
Transcript characters: 14876

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 0, Ukraine: 0, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

No primary-pattern match. Supplementary retrieval was included in the bounded review.

v4k9wq3

Stored date: 2024-03-19 00:00:00
Precision: naive datetime; appears date-level
Transcript characters: 10052

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 1, Ukraine: 0, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

Domestic protests, January 6 and law enforcement.

[
  {
    "term": "terror",
    "start": 760,
    "end": 769
  }
]

v4kcf0x

Stored date: 2024-03-20 00:00:00
Precision: naive datetime; appears date-level
Transcript characters: 16809

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 2, Ukraine: 0, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

Supreme Court government/social-media speech hypotheticals.

[
  {
    "term": "terror",
    "start": 8184,
    "end": 8193
  },
  {
    "term": "terror",
    "start": 8340,
    "end": 8349
  }
]

v4kffif

Stored date: 2024-03-20T17:01:49+00:00
Precision: timezone-aware timestamp
Transcript characters: 35743

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 0, Ukraine: 0, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

No primary-pattern match. Supplementary retrieval was included in the bounded review.

v4kgr3x

Stored date: 2024-03-20 00:00:00
Precision: naive datetime; appears date-level
Transcript characters: 14080

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 0, Ukraine: 0, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

No primary-pattern match. Supplementary retrieval was included in the bounded review.

v4khpyb

Stored date: 2024-03-21T01:00:27+00:00
Precision: timezone-aware timestamp
Transcript characters: 80931

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 0, Ukraine: 0, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

No primary-pattern match. Supplementary retrieval was included in the bounded review.

v4kn6wb

Stored date: 2024-03-21 00:00:00
Precision: naive datetime; appears date-level
Transcript characters: 10092

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 0, Ukraine: 4, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

Spring-break interviewees oppose U.S. aid to Ukraine; no target-incident context.

[
  {
    "term": "Ukraine",
    "start": 4658,
    "end": 4665
  },
  {
    "term": "Ukraine",
    "start": 6101,
    "end": 6108
  },
  {
    "term": "Ukraine",
    "start": 6227,
    "end": 6234
  },
  {
    "term": "Ukraine",
    "start": 9300,
    "end": 9307
  }
]

v4knnjw

Stored date: 2024-03-21 00:00:00
Precision: naive datetime; appears date-level
Transcript characters: 16385

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 0, Ukraine: 0, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

No primary-pattern match. Supplementary retrieval was included in the bounded review.

v4koo1u

Stored date: 2024-03-21T21:00:05+00:00
Precision: timezone-aware timestamp
Transcript characters: 43972

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 5, Ukraine: 0, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

Immigration, policing and terrorism-watchlist claims in Mark Robinson interview.

[
  {
    "term": "terror",
    "start": 9920,
    "end": 9930
  },
  {
    "term": "terror",
    "start": 9976,
    "end": 9985
  },
  {
    "term": "terror",
    "start": 22720,
    "end": 22731
  },
  {
    "term": "terror",
    "start": 28041,
    "end": 28050
  },
  {
    "term": "terror",
    "start": 28420,
    "end": 28430
  }
]

v4kpmjx

Stored date: 2024-03-21 00:00:00
Precision: naive datetime; appears date-level
Transcript characters: 17301

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 0, Ukraine: 0, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

No primary-pattern match. Supplementary retrieval was included in the bounded review.

v4ku770

Stored date: 2024-03-22 00:00:00
Precision: naive datetime; appears date-level
Transcript characters: 21113

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 0, Ukraine: 0, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

No primary-pattern match. Supplementary retrieval was included in the bounded review.

v4kusmu

Stored date: 2024-03-22 00:00:00
Precision: naive datetime; appears date-level
Transcript characters: 20493

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 1, Ukraine: 0, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

Immigration and Tyson Foods employment discussion.

[
  {
    "term": "terror",
    "start": 3948,
    "end": 3957
  }
]

v4kvtpo

Stored date: 2024-03-22 00:00:00
Precision: naive datetime; appears date-level
Transcript characters: 147367

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 3, Ukraine: 1, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

Historical suffragette terrorism references; Ukraine-war funding mentioned during marriage/gender/draft discussion.

[
  {
    "term": "terror",
    "start": 15086,
    "end": 15096
  },
  {
    "term": "terror",
    "start": 15432,
    "end": 15442
  },
  {
    "term": "terror",
    "start": 16276,
    "end": 16286
  },
  {
    "term": "Ukraine",
    "start": 105401,
    "end": 105408
  }
]

v4kwju3

Stored date: 2024-03-22 00:00:00
Precision: naive datetime; appears date-level
Transcript characters: 12918

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 0, Ukraine: 0, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

No primary-pattern match. Supplementary retrieval was included in the bounded review.

v4kylw5

Stored date: 2024-03-23 00:00:00
Precision: naive datetime; appears date-level
Transcript characters: 13629

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 0, Ukraine: 0, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

No primary-pattern match. Supplementary retrieval was included in the bounded review.

v4kwzoi

Stored date: 2024-03-24 00:00:00
Precision: naive datetime; appears date-level
Transcript characters: 7209

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 3, Ukraine: 0, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

Substantially repeated Mark Robinson immigration/policing segment, with terror keywords also present in March 21 source record.

[
  {
    "term": "terror",
    "start": 464,
    "end": 475
  },
  {
    "term": "terror",
    "start": 5727,
    "end": 5736
  },
  {
    "term": "terror",
    "start": 6106,
    "end": 6116
  }
]

v4lfsv3

Stored date: 2024-03-25T17:02:12+00:00
Precision: timezone-aware timestamp
Transcript characters: 25908

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 0, Ukraine: 0, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

No primary-pattern match. Supplementary retrieval was included in the bounded review.

v4lnfol

Stored date: 2024-03-26 00:00:00
Precision: naive datetime; appears date-level
Transcript characters: 11516

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 0, Ukraine: 0, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

No primary-pattern match. Supplementary retrieval was included in the bounded review.

v4lny8x

Stored date: 2024-03-26T17:01:21+00:00
Precision: timezone-aware timestamp
Transcript characters: 30944

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 3, Ukraine: 0, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

CIA music/torture discussion; Baltimore bridge-collapse speculation; generic comment that terrorist attacks happen. No identifiable Moscow reference.

[
  {
    "term": "terror",
    "start": 5335,
    "end": 5344
  },
  {
    "term": "terror",
    "start": 26911,
    "end": 26920
  },
  {
    "term": "terror",
    "start": 28840,
    "end": 28849
  }
]

v4lsds9

Stored date: 2024-03-27 00:00:00
Precision: naive datetime; appears date-level
Transcript characters: 16229

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 0, Ukraine: 0, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

No primary-pattern match. Supplementary retrieval was included in the bounded review.

v4lv84f

Stored date: 2024-03-27 00:00:00
Precision: naive datetime; appears date-level
Transcript characters: 12062

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 0, Ukraine: 0, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

No primary-pattern match. Supplementary retrieval was included in the bounded review.

v4lx150

Stored date: 2024-03-27 00:00:00
Precision: naive datetime; appears date-level
Transcript characters: 15491

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 0, Ukraine: 0, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

No primary-pattern match. Supplementary retrieval was included in the bounded review.

v4lxn7e

Stored date: 2024-03-28T01:00:19+00:00
Precision: timezone-aware timestamp
Transcript characters: 73180

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 0, Ukraine: 0, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

No primary-pattern match. Supplementary retrieval was included in the bounded review.

v4m2gl3

Stored date: 2024-03-28 00:00:00
Precision: naive datetime; appears date-level
Transcript characters: 14091

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 0, Ukraine: 1, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

Substantially repeated marriage/gender segment; Ukraine passage also present in March 22 Culture War record.

[
  {
    "term": "Ukraine",
    "start": 12920,
    "end": 12927
  }
]

v4m2vzu

Stored date: 2024-03-28T17:01:05+00:00
Precision: timezone-aware timestamp
Transcript characters: 26217

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 0, Ukraine: 0, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

No primary-pattern match. Supplementary retrieval was included in the bounded review.

v4m4jd5

Stored date: 2024-03-28T21:04:02+00:00
Precision: timezone-aware timestamp
Transcript characters: 43141

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 0, Ukraine: 0, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

No primary-pattern match. Supplementary retrieval was included in the bounded review.

v4m56h0

Stored date: 2024-03-28 00:00:00
Precision: naive datetime; appears date-level
Transcript characters: 10444

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 0, Ukraine: 0, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

No primary-pattern match. Supplementary retrieval was included in the bounded review.

v4ma78c

Stored date: 2024-03-29T17:00:14+00:00
Precision: timezone-aware timestamp
Transcript characters: 22666

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 0, Ukraine: 0, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

No primary-pattern match. Supplementary retrieval was included in the bounded review.

v4mbtwu

Stored date: 2024-03-29 00:00:00
Precision: naive datetime; appears date-level
Transcript characters: 20542

Primary occurrences: Moscow: 0, Crocus: 0, terror: 0, Ukraine: 0, ISIS: 0, Islamic State: 0

No primary-pattern match. Supplementary retrieval was included in the bounded review.

Supplementary match positions

Zero-based Unicode character offsets, end-exclusive, in the original JSON transcript field. Not bytes or media timestamps.

[
  {
    "category": "Russia broad",
    "video_id": "v4m4jd5",
    "start": 41865,
    "end": 41873,
    "context_start": 41565,
    "context_end": 42323
  },
  {
    "category": "Russia broad",
    "video_id": "v4m2vzu",
    "start": 23635,
    "end": 23643,
    "context_start": 23335,
    "context_end": 24093
  },
  {
    "category": "Russia broad",
    "video_id": "v4kusmu",
    "start": 17460,
    "end": 17467,
    "context_start": 17160,
    "context_end": 17917
  },
  {
    "category": "Russia broad",
    "video_id": "v4kusmu",
    "start": 17481,
    "end": 17488,
    "context_start": 17181,
    "context_end": 17938
  },
  {
    "category": "Russia broad",
    "video_id": "v4kn6wb",
    "start": 3775,
    "end": 3782,
    "context_start": 3475,
    "context_end": 4232
  },
  {
    "category": "Russia broad",
    "video_id": "v4k2hfu",
    "start": 9229,
    "end": 9241,
    "context_start": 8929,
    "context_end": 9691
  },
  {
    "category": "Russia broad",
    "video_id": "v4k2hfu",
    "start": 9789,
    "end": 9799,
    "context_start": 9489,
    "context_end": 10249
  },
  {
    "category": "Russia broad",
    "video_id": "v4k2hfu",
    "start": 10190,
    "end": 10200,
    "context_start": 9890,
    "context_end": 10650
  },
  {
    "category": "Russia broad",
    "video_id": "v4k2hfu",
    "start": 10780,
    "end": 10790,
    "context_start": 10480,
    "context_end": 11240
  },
  {
    "category": "Ukraine broad",
    "video_id": "v4m2gl3",
    "start": 12920,
    "end": 12927,
    "context_start": 12620,
    "context_end": 13377
  },
  {
    "category": "Ukraine broad",
    "video_id": "v4kvtpo",
    "start": 105401,
    "end": 105408,
    "context_start": 105101,
    "context_end": 105858
  },
  {
    "category": "Ukraine broad",
    "video_id": "v4kn6wb",
    "start": 4658,
    "end": 4665,
    "context_start": 4358,
    "context_end": 5115
  },
  {
    "category": "Ukraine broad",
    "video_id": "v4kn6wb",
    "start": 6101,
    "end": 6108,
    "context_start": 5801,
    "context_end": 6558
  },
  {
    "category": "Ukraine broad",
    "video_id": "v4kn6wb",
    "start": 6227,
    "end": 6234,
    "context_start": 5927,
    "context_end": 6684
  },
  {
    "category": "Ukraine broad",
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Source register

  1. S1DOJ announcement of indictment of Kostiantyn Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva

    Opening paragraph; court-documents summary; final presumption-of-innocence paragraph.

    Historical announcement and allegations. Page does not establish any subsequent court disposition.

  2. S2United States v. Kalashnikov and Afanasyeva, indictment

    Paragraphs 1–2, printed page 1; paragraph 37(b), printed pages 24–25; paragraph 37(c), printed page 25. Printed pages coincide with PDF page numbers.

    Prosecutorial allegations, not trial findings. Underlying Discord messages and original recordings were not independently authenticated for this article. Anonymous identities are not independently resolved.

  3. S3Kurek, Zheng, Gilbert and Budak, A Complete Dataset of Tenet Media’s Podcast Videos on Rumble, version 2

    Authors/Creators; Description; Dataset Summary; Files. Exact file: rumble_TENETmedia_videos_01-20-25_final.json.

    One named Rumble channel. Dataset authors describe collection completeness; this pilot did not independently establish completeness across platforms or all original recordings. Repository license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

  4. S4Kurek and colleagues, Outsourcing an Information Operation: A Complete Dataset of Tenet Media’s Podcasts on Rumble, version 1

    Introduction, first paragraph; Data Collection; Dataset Curation > Metadata > video_date; Transcription and Post-Processing of Transcripts.

    The paper supplies the researchers’ framing and methods. Its characterizations do not convert allegations into convictions, establish a 2026 legal outcome, or prove any individual speaker’s knowledge.

  5. S5Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Terrorist Attack in Moscow Region, Russia on 22 March 2024

    First full paragraph identifies Crocus City Hall, Moscow Region, and March 22, 2024.

    Used only for incident name, place, and date; does not establish responsibility or the alleged editorial direction.

  6. R1ContraLume bounded transcript pilot: reproduced counts and documented contextual classifications

    This companion’s methods, inclusion records, pattern locators, and duplicate locators.

    Keyword-assisted retrieval and context review. No full end-to-end reading of all 34 transcripts, original audio/video verification, private-message authentication, or audience study.