🏗️ The Problem: Context & Speed
As the public debate accelerates, a title-based filter is no longer enough. To truly serve our mission, VFS must understand the deep context of the news (Semantics) and capture it as it breaks (Velocity).
🚀 The Evolution: The Semantic Pivot
We are currently in the midst of Era IV, transitioning VFS into a state of Total Semantic Awareness.
- Deep-Body Bouncer: We have moved beyond headline-matching. VFS now uses Concept URIs to identify target entities within the full body of articles, ensuring no significant mention is missed.
- The Stateful Sniper: A new recursive system that "Scouts" for unknown actors and "Snipes" their specific claims in real-time, performing delta-extractions.
- Forensic Discovery Engine: Launched a deep-archive browser in the Public Dashboard, unlocking 54,000+ atomic claims from BigQuery and linking them directly to the Neural Evidence Vault for sub-second verification.
- Projected: Thematic Persistence: Our upcoming phase will focus on tracking how narratives evolve and persist over months, moving from single events to longitudinal adjudication.
⚖️ Strategic Impact
Era IV represents the transition from "mapping the news" to "illuminating the debate." We are building a system that doesn't just store facts, but understands the evolving battlefield of public opinion in real-time, in as many languages as possible, for free.