Escalation Rules
- High-severity legal or safety incidents can trigger an immediate hold and distribution suppression.
- Decisions are auditable with timestamps, rationale, and linked moderation-case metadata.
- Appeals are tracked explicitly so reversals and follow-up actions are visible in the record.
Operational Guarantees
- Safety-gate and legal-hold workflows fail closed when signal confidence is high risk.
- Takedown state changes propagate to public correction and takedown feeds.
- Emergency controls are operational safeguards, not editorial ranking tools.