The 'Profilian' Project

This era of digitalized information is witnessing some drastic transformations in terms content catering and utilization but most of it are happening in a discreet manner. The readers are able to obtain news and updates about a certain incident in one page but lose on the follow up and are unable to have related information in one package.

Profilian comes into play to save the day here, with it's unique Blend of Technology and Sociology where the technology is built to classify a piece of information into proper category with relevant metadata. Different pieces of data belonging to different category with common link is bridged together to provide 360 degree information to the readers.

Profiling

Defying William Shakespeare, we focus on standing on our name. We profile people with significance, organizations, movements, criminal cases, sociological phenomenons, conflicts etc.

Each and every profiling forms rely on different sets of data collection required to provide the reader the sufficient but non-infringing information to have a deep understanding of the topic on table.

We document the priority and influential issues of the day. Things that we are not able to cover doesn't indicate any ignorance towards them but because of lack of availability of enough resources that forces us to set legitimate priorities based on our capability to cater regional and linguistic domains. 

Mapping

As we said, we provide a 360 degree view, different types and sets of the content are mapped together to give the reader and wholesome perspective of the subject so that they can make informed decision based on their own knowledge and conscience rather than being influenced by propagandists trying to feed half baked information. 

For example, if a reader opens the profile a person, they can also obtain information on the organizations the subject person is attached with or people related to them, their ideology, political belief, sociological phenomenon associated with them or news and updates related to them through just one click on the related buttons of mapping.

Same is applicable for all other modules like movements, crimes, conflicts etc.

Anti-Doxxing Policy

We craft our documentation carefully and have the highest standard of filtration to publish only credible information. Our own content are fact-checked. Nevertheless we have a dedicated wing to counter propaganda beyond simple fact check.

Oversimplified fact-check has become another method of propaganda. Mushrooming number of fact-check sites are working in a biased manner to target certain ideologies and countering their propaganda or mistaken publications while allowing safe passage to certain ideologies.

Our fact-check is based on the issues and not to monitor certain ideologies and spare the others. Also rather than plain binary fact checks we have non-binary parameters to judge quantitative and qualitative attributes of the fact checks.

Narrative Check

Fact checking is sometime weaponized as a tool to counter some narratives and whitewash crimes. For example, consider a human rights black hole where places of worship are demolished rampantly and hate crimes are normal, a fact checking site sides with the biased mainstream media to suppress the news but when victims come up with 99 true reports and 1 faulty report, such fact-checkers try to whitewash the crimes using that single mistaken report.

That's where narrative check intervenes. Specific newsreport even if faulty, the narratives they want to set, is true or not.

The Team

The 'Profilian' project that required an accurate but extremely complex blend of technology and sociology, has been designed and developed by a veteran programmer and an alumna of Delhi's JNU who goes by the pen name of Savage Sociologist because of the consistent threat she has on her life- from shoot-at-sight decree by terrorists to bounty on her head.

She is a specialist in demography, surveying, sociology, criminal psychology and IT etc and designed the architecture of the project.

Allegiance Policy

Profilian is based in India and our operations are subjected to the permissibility of the Indian laws and jurisdiction. Apart from the Profilian has no allegiance to government of India. We are governed by unbiased journalistic ethics.

Profilian doesn't have any political affiliation with any political party in India or elsewhere. However from time to time Profilian consumes services people not directly associated with Profilian. They might have their own political affiliation which doesn't reflect any affiliation of Profilian.

Reporting & Documentation Methodology

Profilian has a very scientific, unbiased and transparent methodology in its reporting and documentation services:

1. On the occurrence of any incident, we try to obtain the statements from different parties involved. For example, in case of a crime we try to take the statements of the investigative authorities, the victims point of view and the same of the culprit if available or their keens.
2. In case our request for comments are not responded, we conclude the report with the best possible scenario emerging from existing information publicly available.
3. In case their statements, counters or comments reach us at a later stage, we update the relevant report and the same also appears on the homepage of our website.
4. We try to look for original statements the respective digital platforms to cover in our reporting. For example, in case of a statement by a celebrity that had potential to be distorted or manipulated, we look for their official social media platform, or the first source of emergence or the largest portion of the original element from where such news are emerging. That helps are deter the anchoring bias.
5. To provide our reader a 360 degree view we map the report with other relevant elements to make it rich in outlook and context.