Tips — Candor Trust & Safety

The problem it solves

Sources take real risks, and ordinary channels — email, DMs, contact forms — leave trails. Tips gives a newsroom or an independent journalist a dedicated intake channel built for sensitive material.

How it works

Submissions arrive through a dedicated secure channel and are held encrypted at rest in an isolated vault, separate from platform content stores. Access is deliberately narrow: intake is the channel’s only public face.

Verified behaviors

Every claim below maps to a dated behavioral proof in the public evidence record.

A submitted document is received and stored only as ciphertext — confirmed on disk.
Verified July 2, 2026.

Classification markings are detected and the document is quarantined with an auto-destruction window set.
Verified July 2, 2026.

Honest limitations

No submission system removes all risk for a source — operational security on the source’s side (device, network, metadata discipline) still matters.
Tips is an intake channel, not an anonymity guarantee; journalists should pair it with their own source-protection practice.

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Where this fits

Candor works at the intersection of gaming safety, age assurance, privacy, parental consent, cryptographic evidence, and auditable trust & safety decisions. Related:

Truth Shield — credibility analysis with the reasoning shown
Never a black-box score; open-source core.
Beacon — wellbeing signal detection that connects people to help
Built to support, never to punish.
The Open Feed Network — the live platform with zero-PII cryptographic identity
Every Candor safety product runs in production here first, under our own NCMEC ESP registration.