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A Typo Landed an Innocent Gamer in Prison for 18 Months
Deterministic text analytics computed across all 2 sources. Frequency, entity overlap, and claim overlap — computed counts only. Nothing is rated true or false.
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Frequency Analytics
The most common words and exact phrases across every report in this cluster. Computed counts only.
Top words
prisonmonthsunderscoreinnocentwrongauthoritiesrealizingconvictedusernamearrested
Top phrases
18 monthsprison for 18 monthsprison for 18
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Entity Overlap
Names detected in the report text: which appear across multiple sources, and which only one source mentions.
Across multiple sources
- Brandon Klayme · 2 sources
Unique to one source
- A Typo Landed · Wired
- Innocent Gamer · Wired
- Prison · Wired
- Skyrim · Ars Technica
- Nova Scotia · Ars Technica
- Madison · Ars Technica
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Claim Overlap
Near-identical sentences found in two or more reports, versus sentences that appear in only one. Text match only — nothing is rated true or false.
Repeated across sources
No sentence appeared in more than one source.
Appears once
- "How much could a single underscore in a username really matter?" · Wired
- "Just ask Brandon Klayme, who served 18 months in prison before realizing how authorities arrested, charged, and convicted the wrong man." · Wired
- "One missing underscore in a Skyrim-themed username put an innocent Nova Scotia man in prison for 18 months." · Ars Technica
- "A 2018 child-luring investigation, which began in Madison, Wisconsin, and eventually extended to Halifax, Canada, was based on a false premise." · Ars Technica