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My Fallout with Troy Barile-Simleness.
Academic Fraud and Weaponized Trust — How an “investigative journalist” used fabricated authority to threaten lives and silence truth. With timeline and evidence appendix.
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25 Apr 2026
From the masthead
11 Apr 2026
The Horrors Were Always Real.
How bad actors have led the world astray about the story of Sascha Barros (THEY/THEM)
The Conclusion Came First.
How Brandy Zadrozny uses her investigative and writing skills to write opinion pieces instead — at the cost of victims.
ArchiveSee all articles published so far.
The full list lives on the archive page. Two long-form pieces are live; a third is in draft.
Psychological Warfare
All case files →The reading room is being built.
A working room on the psychological tactics used to admit nothing while appearing to admit everything: motivated reasoning, confirmation bias, doctrinal information operations, and the linguistic moves that recur across the public record. Nothing is published here yet — this is the starting reading list.
The case for motivated reasoning
Kunda · Psychological Bulletin, 1990
Confirmation bias: a ubiquitous phenomenon
Nickerson · Review of General Psychology, 1998
Psychology of Intelligence Analysis
Heuer · CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence
Military Information Support Operations
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff · JP 3‑13.2 doctrine
Digital OpSec
All guides →Threat modeling for survivors going public
Who needs to know what, and what they can do with it. Worksheet included.
Signal & encrypted chat without performing security
Real-world setup that survives the first stressful week, not a textbook checklist.
Identity hygiene before a name goes public
Data broker removal, account separation, the photo audit nobody wants to do.
PGP for survivors, not cypherpunks
The minimum useful version, with the parts that always break called out.
Adversarial OSINT: assume they’re looking
What an investigator with $200 can find about you in an afternoon. And what to do about it.
The Network
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Matt Tranberg
Audio Visual Producer · Alberta, Canada
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Editor · long form
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Legal observer
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Audio engineer
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Visual archive
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Web infrastructure
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Translation
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OSINT & research
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Media
All works →Academic & Cited
Full bibliography →
1990
Kunda, Z. The case for motivated reasoning. Psychological Bulletin, 108(3), 480–498.
1998
Nickerson, R. S. Confirmation bias: a ubiquitous phenomenon in many guises. Review of General Psychology, 2(2), 175–220.
1999
Heuer, R. J. Psychology of Intelligence Analysis. CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence.
1991
Habermas, J. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. MIT Press (trans. Burger & Lawrence).
1849
Thoreau, H. D. Resistance to Civil Government. Æsthetic Papers (Boston).
Mind Map
Case file
Records
Witnesses
Agencies
Press
Funders
A working map: each node opens its underlying documents. Currently scoped to the two long-form pieces; expands with each new case file. Open the full map →