São PauloInSight Crime published exactly how it used AI.
That transparency lets readers judge evidence about a heavily politicized group.
The AI tool organized citations and flagged its own gaps, and reporters verified each claim independently.
Whether the method holds up on less-scrutinized groups than Tren de Aragua in Brazil is untested.
How each outlet framed it
- InSight Crime
- reconstructs Tren de Aragua's cooperative arms-for-cocaine model in Brazil versus violent turf-takeover expansion in other regions
Sources: InSight Crime