{"version":2,"found":true,"_about":"A provenance receipt: the REAL publish-authority records behind ONE published Descout piece. Don't trust the byline label — fetch this receipt and verify it. VERIFY CHAIN: from the piece's page, read the byline → fetch this receiptUrl → confirm the `reviewedBy` name is backed by a matching human approval hop in `publishTransition` (an `admin` actor moving the piece to published/scheduled) and/or the `goldRecord` human verdict. SEMANTICS: a field is present ONLY when a real record backs it — ABSENCE means \"no such record\", never \"checked and none\". So a missing `reviewedBy` means no PROVABLE human verdict (the piece under-claims — it may still have been seen by a human), a missing `goldRecord` means none was captured for this piece, and a missing `corrections` means the piece is uncorrected. 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SEVEN changes. (1) \"a $1,000 pack Descout reviewed Aug. 14\" asserted an editorial act by Descout that never happened - no Descout article or beat has ever covered that pack. The $1,000 price, 55% minimum guarantee and 92% buyback are all on pull.gacha.game/play/packs/1071 and were kept. (2) \"PSA's $79.99 submission charge\" was credited to Gacha Pull via a link to its own post (@gacha_game_ 2086916565329440923), which states no figure; $79.99 appears only in the post it quote-tweeted (@Groovy_HQ 2086508223033684220). Re-attributed. (3) \"sold for $93,940 in July\" - the cited tweet was posted 2026-08-01 and says \"this month\"; beat breaking_news/xEvjdh7fEmMpCiXmute3 had already recorded the month as ambiguous. (4) Self-correction: fix (2) first read \"a collector's post\"; @Groovy_HQ is nowhere described as a collector and is promoting his own card-grading prediction market. Changed to \"a third-party post\". (5) THE TALLY. The lede's \"third new pack category the platform has added in two weeks\" and the kicker's \"three confirmed new pack categories in under two weeks: NBA Rookie Rip, Hall of Fame Rip and now MTG\" are both false: Descout's own PUBLISHED beat breaking_news/Q34RJVYaZcDd1FBHVWDb records a fourth in-window launch the article never counted - Pokemon Vintage Holo Rip, Aug. 6 (source @gacha_game_ 2085440799668568352). The count was DROPPED rather than replaced: the true total is not cleanly receipted, because the NBA Rookie Rip, NFL, Drum Island and GACHA-raffle beats are all still DRAFT and draft beats are not usable receipts. The lede now reads \"the latest of several new pack categories\"; the kicker names the three launches that ARE backed by published beats or by tweets the article already cites. \"after opening with\" was also dropped from the lede, since published beats show the run did not open there (World Cup Jul 8, One Piece Grand Cup Jul 16). (6) THE DANGLING RELATIVE. \"The Magic: The Gathering launch three days later\" had no surviving antecedent - the preceding sentence ends on PSA's June 2 tier pause. Replaced with the explicit \"The Aug. 13 Magic: The Gathering launch\". (7) THE STALE KICKER. \"checked Aug. 14\" carried the article's closing argument on a three-week-old snapshot. Re-read live 2026-09-04 by this operator: the catalog still lists only All Packs / Pokemon / One Piece, with no Magic, MTG, NBA, Hall of Fame, Riftbound, sport, soccer or NFL filter, so the observation was re-dated to Sept. 4. The \"teased $1,999 packs were not browsable\" clause was REMOVED rather than re-dated, because a $1,999 pack (One Piece \"Advanced Conqueror's Promo Pack\") IS on the catalog today - carrying it forward would have created a new false statement. The excerpt and seoDescription carried the same false count and were corrected to match. Deliberately NOT touched: the omission of MTG from the kicker's not-browsable list (an omission is not a false statement), and the stored 2026-08-17 headlessReview FAIL receipt and its open_lam_ruling carve-out, which are Lam's. (8) The excerpt and seoDescription still read \"after opening with a $2,100 NBA rookie chase\", carrying the same false-opening implication removed from the body in the previous correction: published beats breaking_news/wLdCy9b4mrjFM8NaEg1J (2026 World Cup collector box, Jul. 8) and breaking_news/OyJPqqBqZ83nXJsJeBY5 (One Piece Grand Cup, Jul. 16) both precede the rookie-card drops, so the run did not open there. Changed to \"after a $2,100 NBA rookie chase\" in both fields. Lam-approved correction pass, 2026-09-04.","note":"Corrected Sept. 4, 2026. This article originally described the $1,000 Pokemon Legendary Pack as one \"Descout reviewed\" - Descout has never reviewed it, and that framing has been removed (the pack's published guarantee and buyback figures are unchanged and verified). It credited PSA's $79.99 submission fee to Gacha Pull's own post; that figure came from a third-party post Gacha Pull was quote-tweeting, and is now attributed there. It dated a $93,940 Lamine Yamal card sale to July; the company said only \"this month\" in an Aug. 1 post and gave no date. It also called Magic: The Gathering the platform's \"third new pack category in two weeks\" and listed three; Descout's own coverage records a fourth in that window, Pokemon Vintage Holo Rip on Aug. 6, so the count has been dropped rather than restated. A \"three days later\" with no clear referent is now dated directly, and the closing observation about the pack catalog - previously a snapshot from Aug. 14 - was re-checked on Sept. 4 and re-dated; a reference to a $1,999 pack not being browsable was removed, because such a pack is listed today. The summary also said the run opened with the NBA rookie chase; earlier Descout coverage records a World Cup collector box on Jul. 8 and a One Piece Grand Cup on Jul. 16 before it, so that wording has been dropped too.","supersededBy":null},"entities":[{"slug":"gacha-pull","name":"Gacha Pull"}]}