Every fabrication the desk checks during the season gets one line here, with its artifact. The treatment is the REALITY DESK treatment and nothing else: what the record shows, on the artifact itself; claims as claims; the weird OF the election, never the horse race; never a partisan take. If a line here ever tells you who to vote for, the line is wrong and gets corrected at /pages/rights.

How a line is written

1. THE FAKE, as it circulated: the claim in the words it wore. 2. WHERE IT RAN: platform and the day the desk first saw it. 3. THE ARTIFACT: the file itself (video, audio, image, document), its length, its metadata, its provenance chain as far as the desk could pull it. 4. WHAT THE RECORD SHOWS: two sentences, deadpan, from the artifact alone (the record-check rule). 5. STATUS: OPEN (unsettled), FAKE (the artifact is synthetic or altered, with the tell), REAL (the artifact is what it claims; the story around it may still be wrong), MISATTRIBUTED (real artifact, wrong event or time).

The file

No entries yet. The first fake we catch goes here, dated.

Standing notes

• Deepfakes, AI voice clones, and "cheapfakes" (real footage, wrong caption) all qualify. So do politicized drone and orb sightings and disclosure used as campaign ammunition. The tell goes in the artifact column, never in an adjective.
• Nobody is called a liar on this page. An artifact is called synthetic, altered, or misattributed, with the evidence.
• The page is updated in place; nothing is removed; corrections are logged at /pages/rights with the date.
• Journalists may cite any line with attribution to mastergnome.com; the artifact files are available on request through the corrections address.