Every incident on the receipts was checked against a primary
source before it was published: a regulator's release, a court record, the company's
own statement, or a named newsroom. Some of the stories that arrived for checking were
not there. They lived on one vendor blog, or on a dozen content-farm pages carrying the
same round numbers and no source, or they were a real incident with a more dramatic
target swapped in.
Those stories are kept, not discarded. When someone repeats one, the useful answer is
not silence. It is: I looked, and here is what I found. Each entry below names the
claim as it circulates, where it appeared, what was searched, what turned up, and the
verified incident it is usually standing in for.
A claim listed here is not proven false. It is unverified after a search of the places
a real event of that size would have to appear. If a primary source turns up, the entry
moves to the receipts, with the source.