# Narrative Authority **Domain:** Identity / Power / Information Control **Doc Type:** Canonical Corpus Concept Node **Maturity:** Developing ## Definition **Narrative authority** is the practical power to determine which account of a person, event or institution becomes visible, credible and consequential. ## Extortion Context An adversary holding private information can curate, sequence and release fragments to impose an account of the target's biography. The leverage lies not only in disclosure but in control over framing, timing and audience. ## See Also [[wiki/Cyber Extortion|Cyber Extortion]], [[wiki/Provenance|Provenance]], [[wiki/Concealed Causation|Concealed Causation]]