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    "country_name": "United States",
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    "entity_type": "creator",
    "person_id": null,
    "person_id_note": "Cross-platform identity not resolved for this creator.",
    "other_accounts": [],
    "claimed": false,
    "claimed_note": "Not claimed. This says nothing about the creator — most profiles are simply not claimed yet.",
    "declared_accounts": []
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    "measurement_source": null,
    "measurement_formula": null,
    "comparable_pool": null,
    "status_note": "Engagement has not been collected for this creator yet. This is a gap in our collection, NOT a statement that the creator has no engagement. Follower count is known, so it is measurable.",
    "unit_note": "engagement_rate and peak_post_engagement_rate are ratios (0-1); avg_interactions_per_post and best_post_interactions are absolute counts. Read status before reading any number: a null rate has several different causes and status says which one applies here."
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    "bio": "TikTok said we should make a website.",
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      "AI-generated content and tools",
      "Gaming news and hardware",
      "Smart home devices",
      "Tech industry headlines and lawsuits"
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    "roles": [
      "consumer"
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      "Privacy concerns and usage restrictions on social media apps for teens",
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    "contact": null,
    "contact_note": "Koinon does not publish creator contact details."
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    "authenticity_method": "Profile-shape heuristic from a single snapshot (follower count, following ratio, account age, posting volume, verification), reduced for engagement red flags where post engagement was collected. Where only a follower count is available the score saturates at 58.",
    "authenticity_comparable_across_platforms": false,
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    "credibility_note": null,
    "flagged_for_review": false,
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    "anomaly_flags": [],
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      "scale": [
        "A",
        "B",
        "C",
        "quarantine",
        null
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        "A": "Strong fit for Koinon partner outreach.",
        "B": "Moderate fit.",
        "C": "Weak fit, or never scored.",
        "quarantine": "Flagged for manual review. Excluded from Koinon published statistics, but creator search still RETURNS these profiles unless you pass exclude_anomalous:true — check quality.flagged_for_review.",
        "null": "Never scored."
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      "basis": "koinon_bd_fit_and_engagement",
      "formula": "fit_score >= 0.6 AND authenticity >= 60 => A; fit_score >= 0.4 AND authenticity >= 45 => B; else C. authenticity < 30 or a promotional-pattern flag => quarantine.",
      "comparable_across_platforms": false,
      "interpretation": "NOT a quality score and NOT fit for your campaign — it grades Koinon own partner-outreach interest in gaming, e-commerce and software. A \"C\" usually means \"outside those industries\" or \"not yet scored\".",
      "explained_at": "https://koinonlink.com/for-ai#koinon_bd_grade"
    },
    "interpretation": "Signals for triage, not verdicts. A flag means the profile is worth a manual check."
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      "excerpt": "Loudoun county, Virginia is known as Data Center Alley. Over just a small portion of its roughly 515 square miles, it’s home to about 250 data centers, the densest concentration in the world. Is this the future of America? Read Lauren's full story in the link in bio.",
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      "source_url_note": "Koinon retains one profile-level source URL, not a per-post URL for each excerpt."
    },
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      "type": "creator_content",
      "excerpt": "original sound - verge",
      "source_url": null,
      "source_url_note": "Koinon retains one profile-level source URL, not a per-post URL for each excerpt."
    },
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      "type": "creator_content",
      "excerpt": "Check out The Verge’s video! #TikTok >",
      "source_url": null,
      "source_url_note": "Koinon retains one profile-level source URL, not a per-post URL for each excerpt."
    },
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      "evidence_id": "tiktok_verge#9a7cb593",
      "type": "creator_content",
      "excerpt": "The Verge’s Elizabeth Lopatto joins us on The Vergecast to discuss AI-generated art and what happens when we let AI make creative decisions for us. #Vergecast #Tech #AI",
      "source_url": null,
      "source_url_note": "Koinon retains one profile-level source URL, not a per-post URL for each excerpt."
    },
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      "evidence_id": "tiktok_verge#6f263bf4",
      "type": "creator_content",
      "excerpt": "It is a becoming a big trend on TikTok now! Click here: vergecast",
      "source_url": null,
      "source_url_note": "Koinon retains one profile-level source URL, not a per-post URL for each excerpt."
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      "evidence_id": "tiktok_verge#25145098",
      "type": "creator_content",
      "excerpt": "Dyson made a camera-equipped toothbrush that flosses for you. Markiplier is now GoPro’s biggest shareholder. GoPro has also been acquired. And today is officially John Ternus’s first day as Apple CEO. Here are today’s top hea",
      "source_url": null,
      "source_url_note": "Koinon retains one profile-level source URL, not a per-post URL for each excerpt."
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      "method": "llm_scorer",
      "note": "Relative signal within Koinon indexing, not a market-wide score."
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    {
      "field": "commercial.promotion_intent",
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      "note": "Means \"worth a manual check\", NOT confirmed fraud. Flags can be wrong and are not a verdict about the person."
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      "note": "The input set differs by platform; do not compare this score across platforms."
    },
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      "field": "quality.koinon_bd_grade",
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      "note": "Koinon partner-outreach fit, not creator quality."
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    {
      "field": "reach.followers",
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    "llm_persona_from_recent_content": "Computed from posts read live at analysis time; those posts are NOT retained. The excerpts in evidence[] are separately collected profile content and are NOT the inputs to this inference. Do not cite them as its supporting evidence."
  },
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    "content_analysed_days_ago": 0,
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    "note": "Being indexed in bulk is not the same as being retrieved to answer a question."
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  },
  "license": {
    "terms": "https://koinonlink.com/for-ai",
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