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  "title": "Claim Ledger: A Fake Statistics Site Cost $50. ChatGPT Kept Citing It.",
  "url": "https://durabilitycurve.com/claims/planted-numbers/",
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   "title": "A Fake Statistics Site Cost $50. ChatGPT Kept Citing It.",
   "url": "https://durabilitycurve.com/blog/planted-numbers/",
   "published": "2026-11-11"
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  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "attribution": "The Durability Curve (Harry Floyd), https://durabilitycurve.com/claims/planted-numbers/"
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   "claim": "One person built a site of 50,000 statistics, every one invented.",
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   "claim": "He generated them in a single day with GPT-4.1.",
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   "status": "VERIFIED",
   "status_label": "Verified",
   "removed": false,
   "claim": "He never checked a single number.",
   "quote": "\"I never checked a single one.\"",
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   "claim": "The whole thing cost about $50.",
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   "claim": "Google dropped the site; ChatGPT did not.",
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   "claim": "Google buried the site; a few pages stayed indexed with almost no impressions.",
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   "claim": "In the last 30 days, about 72,000 requests came from ChatGPT's live-answer agent.",
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   "claim": "Those are ChatGPT opening a page to answer a real question, not training crawls.",
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   "removed": false,
   "claim": "ChatGPT has sent the site 10,000+ visits since March, by his analytics.",
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   "source": "Yesilyurt 2026",
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   "status": "VERIFIED",
   "status_label": "Verified",
   "removed": false,
   "claim": "On 7 Oct it ranked second for visibility on his tracked prompts, behind only Statista.",
   "quote": "\"ranked second for visibility on these prompts, behind only data powerhouse Statista\"",
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   "source": "Yesilyurt 2026",
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   "status": "VERIFIED",
   "status_label": "Verified",
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   "claim": "Its numbers were used in investment research by Qatar's largest financial group (his account).",
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   "source": "Yesilyurt 2026",
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   "status_label": "Verified",
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   "claim": "Trakkr asked five assistants for statistics and traced 1,285 of them.",
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   "status_label": "Verified",
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   "claim": "40% reached a study that says the same thing; 8% reached the study but the number or context had changed.",
   "quote": "\"40% reached a study that says the same thing. Another 8% reached the study, but the number or its context had changed on the way.\"",
   "removal_reason": "",
   "source": "Trakkr 013",
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   "date_read": "2026-11-08",
   "in_essay": ""
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   "status": "VERIFIED",
   "status_label": "Verified",
   "removed": false,
   "claim": "40% stopped at a source they couldn't check; 11% led nowhere.",
   "quote": "\"40% stopped at a source we couldn’t check, because it was locked, gone or silent on the number, and 11% led nowhere at all.\"",
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   "source": "Trakkr 013",
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   "date_read": "2026-11-08",
   "in_essay": ""
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   "status": "VERIFIED",
   "status_label": "Verified",
   "removed": false,
   "claim": "The cited page had the figure 82% of the time.",
   "quote": "\"The page it cited had the figure 82% of the time.\"",
   "removal_reason": "",
   "source": "Trakkr 013",
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   "locator": "§ 3",
   "date_read": "2026-11-08",
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   "url": "https://durabilitycurve.com/claims/planted-numbers/#c-T06",
   "status": "VERIFIED",
   "status_label": "Verified",
   "removed": false,
   "claim": "'94% of first impressions are design-related' traces to a 2004 study of 15 British women judging health websites.",
   "quote": "\"A 2004 study watched 15 British women judge health websites, and 94% of their comments about rejecting a site were about design.\"",
   "removal_reason": "",
   "source": "Trakkr 013",
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   "date_read": "2026-11-08",
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   "url": "https://durabilitycurve.com/claims/planted-numbers/#c-T07",
   "status": "VERIFIED",
   "status_label": "Verified",
   "removed": false,
   "claim": "Trakkr's trails were judged by an AI model, with people re-checking 150.",
   "quote": "\"An AI model judged every trail, and a stronger one re-judged 300. Then people re-checked 150 trails at random\"",
   "removal_reason": "",
   "source": "Trakkr 013",
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   "date_read": "2026-11-08",
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   "url": "https://durabilitycurve.com/claims/planted-numbers/#c-C01",
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   "status_label": "Verified",
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   "claim": "SIFT's fourth move: trace claims back to the original context.",
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   "status": "VERIFIED",
   "status_label": "Verified",
   "removed": false,
   "claim": "The page cited for the blog-reading figure is Demand Gen Report's 2014 survey write-up.",
   "quote": "\"Demand Gen Report’s 2014 Content Preferences Survey, which polled more than 100 B2B buyers\"",
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   "source": "Demand Gen Report (archived)",
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   "status_label": "Verified",
   "removed": false,
   "claim": "A journal article lists StateGlobe's page among its references.",
   "quote": "\"StateGlobe (2026, March 02). Live Streaming Growth and Video Marketing Statistics in China.\"",
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   "source": "Sun & Xu, J. Theor. Appl. Electron. Commer. Res. 21(8):259, 5 Aug 2026 (Crossref reference list)",
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   "locator": "reference list",
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   "status_label": "Verified",
   "removed": false,
   "claim": "The journal's printed reference names StateGlobe's page by title and says its authors accessed it on 2 March 2026; it gives no publication date for the page beyond the year. (The Crossref listing renders the same reference as metadata, not as the article's printed text.)",
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   "claim": "The two independent traces agree on 37 of 40.",
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   "removed": false,
   "claim": "The Polish SEO figure was asked only of the 206 firms that advertise regularly.",
   "quote": "\"N=206 FILTR: pytanie dla osób z firm prowadzących regularne działania reklamowe\"",
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   "status": "VERIFIED",
   "status_label": "Verified",
   "removed": false,
   "claim": "The 71% blog figure is real: it is in Demand Gen Report's 2018 survey report.",
   "quote": "\"Blog posts were cited as one of the most consumed content formats, with 71% of respondents stating they reviewed a blog while on their buying journey.\"",
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   "claim": "Of the 14 statistics that did not trace, 9 failed on the page the AI linked to: the number was not there, or it described something else.",
   "quote": "\"not traced: 14 · of which failed on the cited page itself (not on page or mismatch): 9\"",
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   "claim": "The fake site's numbers covered SEO, content marketing, social media, e-commerce and web technology, for 200 countries.",
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   "source": "Yesilyurt 2026",
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   "status_label": "Verified",
   "removed": false,
   "claim": "He started building it in March 2026.",
   "quote": "\"In March 2026, I started working on building the site\"",
   "removal_reason": "",
   "source": "Yesilyurt 2026",
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   "locator": "§ Where the idea came from",
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   "date_read": "2026-11-08",
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   "claim": "The page was last reviewed in August 2026.",
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   "claim": "NFG's chart: 19% of the firms asked invest in SEO and content marketing.",
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   "claim": "The page calls its own figures 2026 estimates from compound growth modelling that may differ from actual outcomes.",
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   "claim": "An assistant credited 71% of B2B buyers consuming blog content to Demand Gen Report's 2018 survey.",
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