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title: "Mario Marcolongo — Investigations &amp; Source Quality Analyst"
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Role-family application CV

## Investigations & Source Quality Analyst

This is the concise, role-family document to send for this role. The master CV is a comprehensive evidence archive; it is normally not attached unless requested.

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# Mario Marcolongo

Investigations & Source Quality Analyst

Public-source research · risk and evidence assessment · sensitive research · analytical reporting · data quality

Italy · EU/EEA work-authorised · Open to sponsored international relocation and B2B engagements[mariomarcolongo.com](https://mariomarcolongo.com)[me@mariomarcolongo.com](mailto:me@mariomarcolongo.com)[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mario-marcolongo)[GitHub](https://github.com/jnton)

Investigations and source-quality analyst with eight years of auditable public work across original article creation, contested-source synthesis, consumer-genomics privacy, archival public-source research, source-quality review, biomedical evidence synthesis, health-information monitoring, structured metadata, multi-source data analysis and visualization, and adversarial AI evaluation. Public cases link to exact diffs and state explicit limits on what the evidence supports.

## Selected evidence

**8 years**Public source-work recordWikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons

**4,317**Auditable contributionsClaims, citations, metadata and media records

**80**Published content contributionsScientific and health-information verification

**113**Proving Ground breaks#74 · top 6% · supporting adversarial evidence

## Relevant experience

### Scientific Contributor & Structured-Data Editor

Wikipedia, Wikidata & Wikimedia Commons

[Investigation work samples ↗](https://mariomarcolongo.com/integrity)[Freedom Cities creation revision ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1306119107&title=Freedom_Cities)[Consumer-genomics privacy record ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebula_Genomics#Privacy_concerns)[Archival-record reconstruction ↗](https://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oscar_Giannino&diff=prev&oldid=133702639)[Source-quality review record ↗](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pagine_da_cancellare/Massimo_Teodorani)[Syndromic autism principal diff ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=1159307157)[Public contribution record ↗](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Digressivo)

Mar 2018 — Present

-   Created the 18,351-byte English Wikipedia article Freedom Cities by reconciling academic analysis, campaign material, draft legislation, think-tank plans and independent reporting into a neutral account of a contested proposal.
-   Maintain consumer-genomics privacy records and recover archived corporate and legal sources, distinguishing allegations from established facts and constructing dated chronologies.
-   Synthesize biomedical evidence into structured taxonomies; perform cross-language adaptation with terminology and citation preservation; separate facts, allegations and inference.

### Science Writer & Fact-Checker / Website Manager (WordPress)

Entropy for Life · Independent contractor

[Official Entropy for Life work record ↗](https://entropyforlife.it/mario-marcolongo-entropy-for-life/)

Jun 2023 — Present

-   Investigate scientific and health claims across 80 documented published contributions using primary-literature searches, source-quality comparison and cross-source corroboration.
-   Co-authored and maintain a rolling H5N1 epidemiological update, reconciling fast-changing reports, documenting source dates and separating confirmed developments from uncertainty.
-   Localize English-language scientific evidence into Italian summaries while preserving meaning, source context and uncertainty.

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## Additional relevant experience

### Volunteer Research Assistant & Focus-Group Co-Facilitator

Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation (DPSS), University of Padua · supervised by Marta Panzeri

[Research-support case study ↗](https://mariomarcolongo.com/research-operations)

Nov 2022 — 2025

-   Co-developed and facilitated approximately 4–5 recorded remote focus groups with autistic participants discussing sensitive sexuality and relationship topics.
-   Supported recruitment, consent, participant privacy, pseudonymous naming, recording boundaries, structured prompts, accessibility options and two-person facilitation handoffs.

### Independent AI Evaluator

Independent practice · Gray Swan Proving Ground

[Evaluation record ↗](https://mariomarcolongo.com/security)[Dated evidence ↗](https://mariomarcolongo.com/evidence/gray-swan-2026-07-29/)[Public profile ↗](https://app.grayswan.ai/arena/user/6a57be70d15e123775a1e9cf)

Jul 2026 — Present

-   Tested chat, image, tool-use and indirect prompt-injection challenges, including extreme and otherwise sensitive content; #74 globally (top 6%) with 113 platform-displayed breaks on 29 July 2026. Analytical evaluation evidence, not production enforcement experience.

## Additional evidence

### [Contested-source policy synthesis and article creation](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1306119107&title=Freedom_Cities)

Created an 18,351-byte English Wikipedia article on Freedom Cities from academic, campaign, legal, institutional and journalistic sources while separating proposal details, advocacy and criticism.

### [Privacy, corporate records and archival recovery](https://mariomarcolongo.com/integrity)

Consumer-genomics privacy and corporate-source reconciliation across changing records; recovered missing material for a separate legal chronology.

### [Structured-data analysis and visualization](https://jnton.github.io/protein-by-bodyweight-country/)

Built a public explorer combining FAOSTAT, NCD-RisC and World Bank datasets into interactive views with documented transformations, assumptions and methodological limitations.

## Capabilities

**Public-source research**Advanced web and scholarly search, public-record triangulation, archival comparison, source provenance and cross-source corroboration

**Source verification & integrity**Claim-to-source auditing, provenance, citation, terminology and metadata review

**Trust & Safety-adjacent analysis**Ambiguous-case investigation, content-risk research, contested-source synthesis, evidence documentation, taxonomy development and escalation-ready reporting

**AI and technical analysis**Adversarial LLM testing; JavaScript, JSON, REST APIs, structured metadata and functional verification of evidence-oriented tools

**Communication**Concise investigative writing, uncertainty communication, reproducibility notes and explanations for technical and non-technical audiences

## Best-fit role families

-   Investigations and content-integrity support
-   OSINT research and source-provenance analysis
-   Trust & Safety-adjacent analysis, risk documentation and escalation support

## Education & credentials

-   Information Technology — Open UAS Path Studies (120 ECTS) — Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Aug 2026–Present; bachelor's-level ICT studies in software development, databases, Unix/Linux, data structures and algorithms, networking, cloud computing, cybersecurity and applied AI. Eligible to apply to the BEng IT programme after completing 120 ECTS (admission not yet granted).
-   GALENOS Crowd Evidence Synthesis Training — Cochrane Crowd & GALENOS, 2026
-   Career Essentials in Generative AI — Microsoft & LinkedIn, 2024
-   Italian — native. English — C1 overall (EF SET 68/100); advanced technical reading and professional writing, with practical English-to-Italian scientific localization and cross-language content-quality work.

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