Summary
The 2026-08-11 MORA issue leads Deals & Movements, and takes its subject line, from "Telkom Transfers More Than Half of Fiber Assets, Infranexia Ready to Manage Rp90 Trillion". Those are the phase one facts: Rp35.8 trillion, signed 18 December 2025. Phase two, the actual news that week at Rp49.9 trillion, is a separate item in the same issue. A reader gets December's transaction as the headline of an August newsletter.
What the investigation found
The obvious guard does not work here. The article's published_at is 2026-08-04, which is recent. The article is fresh; its facts are eight months old. section-freshness.ts has nothing to catch.
published_at is also too sparse to build on: it is set on 50 of the 161 rows accepted across all tickers in the 2026-08-10 batch.
So this needs a content signal, not a date signal.
Proposed signal
A candidate whose distinctive figures all appear in an older story already covered for this ticker is a republication, not news. sharedFigureCount already exists and is already used by cross-run-dedup.ts against recent shipped bullets, so the primitive is in place. What is missing is applying it as a demotion rather than a drop, and specifically barring such an item from supplying the subject.
Scope
- In scope: demote a candidate whose distinctive figures are contained by an older covered story, and never let one supply the subject line.
- Out of scope: improving
published_at extraction in data-collection, and changing the cross-run dedup thresholds.
Acceptance criteria
Notes
Found during the 2026-08-11 newsletter review. Evidence in reviews/2026-08-11/MORA.md and reviews/2026-08-11/IMPROVEMENTS.md item 8.
Related but distinct from #1144, which stops several outlets' retellings of one story from all shipping. This one is about a single retelling whose facts predate the issue. #1144 does not catch it: phase one (Rp35.8tn) and phase two (Rp49.9tn) carry different figures, so they are correctly two events.
The MORA pool also holds Rp49.85tn and Rp85.7tn for the same phase-two transaction, with nothing reconciling the three. That conflict is filed under #1146.
Summary
The 2026-08-11 MORA issue leads Deals & Movements, and takes its subject line, from "Telkom Transfers More Than Half of Fiber Assets, Infranexia Ready to Manage Rp90 Trillion". Those are the phase one facts: Rp35.8 trillion, signed 18 December 2025. Phase two, the actual news that week at Rp49.9 trillion, is a separate item in the same issue. A reader gets December's transaction as the headline of an August newsletter.
What the investigation found
The obvious guard does not work here. The article's
published_atis 2026-08-04, which is recent. The article is fresh; its facts are eight months old.section-freshness.tshas nothing to catch.published_atis also too sparse to build on: it is set on 50 of the 161 rows accepted across all tickers in the 2026-08-10 batch.So this needs a content signal, not a date signal.
Proposed signal
A candidate whose distinctive figures all appear in an older story already covered for this ticker is a republication, not news.
sharedFigureCountalready exists and is already used bycross-run-dedup.tsagainst recent shipped bullets, so the primitive is in place. What is missing is applying it as a demotion rather than a drop, and specifically barring such an item from supplying the subject.Scope
published_atextraction in data-collection, and changing the cross-run dedup thresholds.Acceptance criteria
Notes
Found during the 2026-08-11 newsletter review. Evidence in
reviews/2026-08-11/MORA.mdandreviews/2026-08-11/IMPROVEMENTS.mditem 8.Related but distinct from #1144, which stops several outlets' retellings of one story from all shipping. This one is about a single retelling whose facts predate the issue. #1144 does not catch it: phase one (Rp35.8tn) and phase two (Rp49.9tn) carry different figures, so they are correctly two events.
The MORA pool also holds Rp49.85tn and Rp85.7tn for the same phase-two transaction, with nothing reconciling the three. That conflict is filed under #1146.