Methodology

Every claim on DubaiSignal is scored using a transparent, multi-source model. We classify each source into one of five tiers and weight corroborations and contradictions accordingly.

Source tiers

T1 Official — government bodies, regulators, official statements.
T2 Established International — major international wires and recognized publications.
T3 Regional — established Gulf and MENA outlets.
T4 Aggregators — secondary aggregation services.
T5 Unverified / viral — social, anonymous or unconfirmed channels.

Verification states

Each cluster receives one of seven verification states: Verified, Likely Verified, Developing, Conflicted, Low Confidence, Unverified, False/Retracted. States are recomputed as new signals arrive and decay over time using a recency weight.