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EXPANSION (not a correction): added a second VECTOR grounding the sharpest finding — the documents Trump released name Russia, not China, as the foreign power that worked to favor him. Two released documents added to the frozen corpus (now 11 sources).
New section 'The direction the documents point: at his opponent, not at him', span-grounded to two documents in the 7/16 White House Election Integrity release: (1) NICA 'Foreign Threats to 2020 US Federal Elections' (downgraded from 19 Aug 2020, 'DECLASSIFIED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP on 3 July 2026') — 'We assess that Russia is using a range of measures primarily to denigrate former Vice President Biden'; 'Some Kremlin-linked actors are also seeking to boost President Trump's candidacy on social media'; content 'has largely been favorable to the President'; and 'We assess that China prefers that President Trump be defeated' while 'Beijing did not intend to try to affect the election'. (2) CIA Wire Memo WIRe2020-05063 (1 Jul 2020) — 'Chinese state-sponsored cyber actors targeting the former Vice President's presidential campaign' (Biden's), 'China does not currently intend to covertly interfere to try to sway the outcome'. Prompted by TikTok users surfacing the Russia-denigrate-Biden line; verified verbatim against the released PDFs. Also folded into the settled-summary and the close. Lint reserved:none offenders:0. Published in place (same run_id 2026-07-17T02-19-31Z, hero pin preserved); section fields cleared so it stays the pinned hero and not in the Special Report band.
RESOLVED: the flagged regression magnitudes were re-derived from the 71-audit dataset published inside Figure 2 of the companion report. Every number was real; two of them were filed under the wrong model.
Per-level Poisson: IRR 1.86, true 95% CI 1.24–2.78, p=.003 (the originally printed 1.82–6.32 belonged to a different model). Binary death/war-vs-rest Poisson: RR 3.39, 95% CI 1.82–6.32, p<.001 (the originally published 3.39× was this comparison, mislabeled as the per-level model's g0→g3 poles — which actually imply 6.4×). OLS stands as published (+0.33/level, CI 0.08–0.58, p=.010). The re-fit also surfaced that per-gravity means are non-monotonic (0.50/0.38/0.28/1.13): the effect concentrates at death/war, so both models are now reported, each with its own interval. Analysis committed as scripts/rederive_syntax_of_atrocity.py.
The 'pattern, measured' block counted solo-audit matrices into what read as the cross-outlet tally, publishing 82% over 165 divergences while the Framing Index read 84% over 161.
The build fed the Method page the unfiltered corpus; every other consumer filtered to cross-outlet pieces first. Fixed at the call site — the Method page and the Framing Index now count the same corpus and cannot diverge.
The headline said 'three times out of four' while the figure beside it read 84%. The phrase was written when the live rate sat near 75% and never moved again.
The rhetorical fraction is now computed from the live rate on every build (84% renders as 'five times out of six'). A stale numerator is exactly the defect this desk audits in others.
Source-count chips counted outlets contrasted in the exhibits while the appendix numbered every document on the record — '2 sources' atop a 4-entry appendix; '0 sources' atop a 15-source special report.
Two different measurements shared one label. Chips that link to #sources now count the appendix entries under that anchor; 'outlets compared' is stated separately where it applies. Applies site-wide: article stat bars, homepage cards, the lead hero, feeds, and briefs.
The special report called its agreement check 'independent readers.' They are independent parsing runs of the same model — no human coders were involved.
Wording corrected in place to 'independent model runs.' The 84% exact / 99% within-one-point agreement figures are unchanged; what they measure is now stated plainly.
The working paper reports an IRR of 1.86 per gravity level and a 3.39x pole-to-pole increase as one Poisson result under one confidence interval. Under a single log-linear fit, three levels at 1.86 imply ~6.4x, not 3.39x — and the interval's endpoints (1.82–6.32) appear to describe two different quantities.
A visible correction note now sits on §5.2 and the scorecard. The direction and significance of the gravity effect stand as published; the magnitude figures are mutually inconsistent as stated and are flagged pending re-derivation. The paper's repository link also pointed at a repo that was never published; removed.