No regulator reviews a campaign’s message test: the American human-subjects rule reaches institutions and federal money, not a consultancy working for a candidate. The only check is the one you run yourself. Pick a study and walk it through the article’s three gates.
The screen is this series’ own tool, not a published standard; its transparency gate draws on Bovens (2009). The verdicts apply it to three studies and are a judgement, reasoned from the article’s sources: O’Grady (2025); Jaidka and Ahmed (2026); McDermott and Hatemi (2020); Desposato (2018, 2022); American Political Science Association (2023); Barnfield (2023).