# Semantic Forensics
SemaFor is a DARPA program for detecting, attributing, and characterizing falsified multimodal media by examining semantic inconsistencies in addition to statistical artifacts.
## Security role
As generators improve, low-level fingerprints may become brittle. Semantic forensics asks whether identities, context, behavior, geography, physics, text, audio, and visual content remain mutually coherent.
Within the article, SemaFor bridges [[Information-Environment Radar]] and [[Truth-Chain Infrastructure]] and contributes individual-message analysis to [[Modeling Influence Pathways]].
## Boundary
A forensic score is evidence with uncertainty, not an oracle. Detection, provenance, factual truth, authorship, and actor attribution are distinct claims.
## Source
[[articles/Cognitive-Cyber Warfare Measures and Countermeasures#DARPA and IARPA Research Leads|Cognitive-Cyber Warfare — SemaFor]].