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Plotting the network…

Live · The Network

Everyone’s connected. We draw the map.

Grounded, cited research — structured into a living graph of who’s tied to whom. Pull one name and watch the whole web unspool.

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Dramas
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Connections
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Reader’s Guide

How this site works

Five sections, one archive. Everything is grounded in cited web sources — no fiction, no verdicts.

  1. 01Ask

    Talk to the archivist

    Ask questions in plain language. The columnist grounds every answer in the archive — it won’t invent scandals for people we haven’t filed.

    Open Ask →
  2. 02Influence

    Rank reach in the scandal web

    Pick someone and see their Katz centrality — how many paths run through them across shared dramas. Compare rank, hop reach, and severity against the rest of the archive.

    Open Influence →
  3. 03Articles

    Read the front-page features

    Every entry can be spun into a magazine-style feature — synthesized from the facts we already have, with citations back to the source dramas.

    Open Articles →
  4. 04Archive

    Browse the filing cabinet

    Every person and drama we’ve researched, searchable by name, alias, or profession. Missing someone? Request them and an editor may commission a story.

    Open Archive →
  5. Plotting the network…

    05Network

    Map the scandal web

    Pick a person, choose how many hops of separation to reveal, and watch the ego network fan out. Click any node to open its dossier.

    Open Network →
  6. Note from the desk

    The archive only holds people we’ve researched. Search returns nothing? Type the name anyway — we log it and an editor may commission a story from the Newsroom.

Ask the Columnist

Query the archive. Get maps, not mush.

Grounded in your graph — people, dramas, edges — with charts and network views inline.

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Who sits at the center of the web around the archive?
Columnist

In the archives

Scanning person index…
Ranking nodes by edge count…
Pulling drama severity histogram…
Rendering ego network…

the archive is the densest knot in this slice of the archive — 0 direct ties across 0 co-stars in the preview graph. Here's what the columnist sees when querying the database (not the open web).

Drama severity · archive slice
Scandal
38%
Major
24%
Notable
28%
Minor
10%
Degrees of separation
Tthe archive
1 hop2 hops
Ego network · live from DB
Direct ties
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1-hop co-stars
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2-hop reach
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Synthesized from graph queries — no web search. Ask your own question in the full columnist.

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