How Claude Decided Which Sources to Cite
When researching this report, Claude used web search and web fetch to retrieve publicly available information about the subject company, its principals, associated domains, and any records bearing on its legitimacy or risk profile.
Sources were selected and cited according to the following logic:
Direct relevance. Only sources that contributed a specific, verifiable fact to the report were cited — registration records, regulatory filings, court documents, news coverage, domain registration data, and similar primary or secondary references. Background context drawn from general knowledge was not attributed to any source.
Traceability. Each cited source was one Claude actually retrieved and read during the research session, not one inferred or assumed to exist. If a source appeared in search results but was not fetched and confirmed, it was not cited.
Non-duplication. Where multiple sources reported the same fact, the most authoritative or original source was preferred. Aggregator summaries were used only when the underlying primary source was inaccessible.
Proportionality. The number of citations reflects the density of verifiable external data in a given section. Sections based on document analysis or logical inference from retrieved facts carry fewer citations than sections drawing on multiple independent sources.
Copyright compliance. No source text was reproduced verbatim in substantial form. All citations support paraphrased or summarized claims in Claude's own words.