Weekly civic intelligence report · v2.2
Representatives Tlaib and AOC remained silent on the Gaza ceasefire deal while other Democrats offered praise, creating political division within the party.
This event scores 0 on constitutional damage as it involves no governmental action, policy change, or institutional harm - merely selective reporting on which politicians commented on a foreign policy development. The B-score is elevated (43.89) due to: Layer 1 - high outrage_bait (6) framing silence as scandal, strong media_friendliness (7) with partisan angle, moderate meme_ability (4) and novelty (3). Layer 2 - strong mismatch (8) between non-story and coverage intensity, timing (7) exploiting ceasefire announcement, narrative_pivot (6) creating intra-party division story, pattern_match (7) fitting 'Democrats divided' template. Intentionality at 11/15 (73% modulation) based on: selective framing of who spoke/didn't speak, suspicious timing to maximize division narrative, deliberate construction of 'silence as story', and pattern repetition across identical articles. The mechanism is correctly identified as information_operation - manufacturing political division from routine variation in politician response times. Classification: List B with D-score of -43.89, representing pure distraction content with zero constitutional impact.
Monitor for: 1) Whether this narrative expands to claim broader Democratic 'obstruction' of peace efforts, 2) If silence-as-story framing becomes template for manufacturing division, 3) Actual policy positions when/if expressed by named representatives, 4) Whether ceasefire holds and what role various actors actually played. This represents textbook information operation: creating political conflict narrative from absence of immediate comment on complex foreign policy development.