{
  "declared_links": {
    "economic_signal_ids": [],
    "relation": "topic-surface-only",
    "scan_signal_ids": []
  },
  "dek": "Two red tides were sighted during the past week, the Inter-departmental Red Tide Working Group reported today (August 21). On August 18, staff of the Environmental Protection Department spotted two red tides at Repulse Bay Beach and Deep Water Bay Beach, Hong Kong Island, respectively. Both red tides have dissipated an",
  "desk": "politics",
  "event_id": "event-6128aeff2151bbfb1041e27a",
  "evidence_groups": [
    {
      "group_id": "hksar-government",
      "roles": [
        "primary"
      ],
      "source_ids": [
        "hksar-releases"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "evidence_refs": [
    {
      "independence_group": "hksar-government",
      "item_id": "item-132ef703b5ed76c555fb17ae",
      "published_at": "2026-08-21T06:55:00Z",
      "role": "primary",
      "source_id": "hksar-releases",
      "source_name": "Hong Kong SAR Government News",
      "title": "Red tides sighted",
      "url": "https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202608/21/P2026082100417.htm",
      "version_id": "itemv-b898caf23687bb10703cf27e"
    }
  ],
  "evidence_strength": "single-primary-source",
  "headline": "Red tides sighted",
  "lead": false,
  "lead_reason": "Current single-source metadata is retained but not promoted as a lead.",
  "limitations": [
    "Palimpsest retained only feed title, canonical link, time, and a bounded plain-text excerpt; it did not fetch the article body.",
    "The evidence-strength label describes source structure, not truth, intent, impact, or causation.",
    "Declared instrument links are topical pointers until a separate scan or economic observation is joined by time and method.",
    "Title-similarity clustering can miss differently worded or cross-language accounts and can join closely worded updates.",
    "This dossier currently contains one independent evidence group and remains explicitly attributed."
  ],
  "mutation": {
    "kind": "unchanged",
    "previous_version_id": "eventv-c68cbea561d478ecbd4770ca"
  },
  "published_at": "2026-08-21T06:55:00Z",
  "reported_facts": [
    {
      "attribution": "Hong Kong SAR Government News",
      "evidence_item_id": "item-132ef703b5ed76c555fb17ae",
      "published_at": "2026-08-21T06:55:00Z",
      "statement": "Hong Kong SAR Government News published “Red tides sighted”."
    }
  ],
  "topics": [
    "government",
    "politics"
  ],
  "updated_at": "2026-08-21T06:55:00Z",
  "url": "https://palimpsest.info/news/wire/event-6128aeff2151bbfb1041e27a/",
  "version_id": "eventv-c68cbea561d478ecbd4770ca"
}