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With two independent filings now on the record, the outline of that evening appears settled: Torres came in, PSG were two goals down, and he scored twice before the break to salvage a point.[^1]\n\nWhat neither account resolves is the detail around the second half - whether PSG pressed for a winner or held what Torres had given them. 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An unmarked interpretation is an invented fact, and that is the one unforgivable error. Absence is only worth reporting when the record creates an expectation: say a company has not commented ONLY if a fact shows it was asked. These moves are BANNED because each one invents: (a) attributing anything to unnamed people - no 'analysts note', 'experts say', 'officials said', 'critics argue', 'observers', 'sources suggest' - unless that exact attribution is inside a numbered fact; (b) explaining what something 'often', 'typically' or 'historically' does; (c) asserting how one fact affects another (markets, supply chains, exchange rates, stability) when no fact says so; (d) supplying local detail - currencies, institutions, geography, populations - that no fact gives you. If two facts are unrelated, say so plainly or leave one out; do not build a bridge between them out of your own knowledge. 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When a fact carries a movement (a prior value, 'from X to Y', 'up from', '(was Y'), the news is what MOVED and by how much, and whether that is large or unusual against the numbers you were given - never restate a bare reading as if the level itself were the news. If an editor's brief names why a reading is unusual, lead with that. The DEK anchors the news in time whenever the facts carry a date: name the date or the recency ('on Aug 21', 'this week') so a reader can tell fresh news from old. Never invent a baseline, a trend or a comparison the facts do not carry. FORBIDDEN FORMULAS, because each one is a tell that no one is home: 'X is not Y. It is Z.' (say the true half only); stitched fragments for rhythm ('Fast. Simple.', 'No fluff. 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