Correction
corr-2026-07-16-private-person-phrases
Logged: 2026-07-16
Severity: major
Status: resolved
Affected record: 2026-07-14
Affected day pages: 2026-07-09 2026-07-14
Timeline: detected 2026-07-16; acknowledged 2026-07-16; corrected 2026-07-16.
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What happened
Phrases containing the names of private individuals appeared in the synchronized-phrase table, in per-phrase adoption-curve pages, in the receipts of one talking point, and in the Democratic composite for this day (and in table rows on 2026-07-09). OnScript measures elected officials' public statements and does not rank, page, quote or narrate private citizens. Every citation involved was valid and every number was correct — the citation verifier has no opinion about privacy, by construction, so no receipts audit could have caught this.
Resolution
Those phrase families are withheld from every published surface and their pages have been removed. The affected composite was re-composed from the same day's measured statistics by the deterministic composer, with every other number unchanged, and is now labelled 'deterministic template (not a language model)' on the page. The underlying record of what members said is retained unaltered (Art. VI); only this instrument's ranking of it is withheld. Suppression is content-neutral protection applied identically to both parties — it is not a finding, and no threshold was changed.