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Audit of draft articles and timeline — issues and fixes
Summary
Systematic review of the draft against rules on spelling, clarity, chronology, framing, misinformation, misidentification, out-of-context quoting, quantitative precision, process/agency clarity, question emphasis, omission, bias, and duplication.
This audit checks the generated timeline and articles against the Issues Rules checklist. Each category below lists either [] (no issues found) or an array of issues identified with type, description, and severity.
spelling: [{"type":"spelling_inconsistency","description":"Transcript contains multiple spellings for the data-center applicant and the town (examples: 'Deepgreen','Deepgram','Deep Green','Esport','eSport'). Articles normalize to 'Deep Green' and 'Eastport' to match official usage. Normalization was applied consistently across articles.","severity":"medium"}]
clarity: [{"type":"clarify_venue_logistics","description":"The timeline notes venue verification for Aug. 5; transcript records discussion but not final confirmation. Article language explicitly states staff will verify venue availability rather than asserting confirmation.","severity":"low"}]
chronology: []
framing: []
misinformation: [{"type":"possible_misstatement","description":"Public comment alleged Deep Green misrepresented community benefit agreements in a FERC filing; the claim was recorded as a resident allegation and staff said they would review FERC documents. The article frames this as an allegation requiring document review rather than an established fact.","severity":"medium"}]
misidentification: [{"type":"vote_mapping_clarity","description":"Roll-call votes were recorded verbatim from transcript where the clerk read councilor names and voting responses. To avoid misattribution, the article lists votes as 'yes' per councilor name as read in roll call. Clerk/reader is identified as 'Clerk' to avoid inventing identities for speakers whose numeric labels do not self-identify as councilors in the transcript.
