Detect syndication from text, not just from configured ownership
Connor's observation: two outlets running the same story can be caught by comparing the text, without anyone having to know who owns whom. Corroboration is now origin_count(), a union-find where two items share an origin if EITHER they are in the same bucket, OR their text is near-identical (normalised title match, or cosine >= 0.97). The rules are complementary: buckets are same-owner/different-text (NYT filing five distinct AfD pieces), text matching is different-owner/same-text (a local station reprinting wire). On real data it fires exactly where it should: the vote-by-mail cluster collapses 2 buckets -> 1 origin, catching the States Newsroom syndication automatically -- the case previously fixed by hand in config -- and a Smithsonian story collapses 3 -> 2, catching WCPO reprinting wire, which no static bucket can express since WCPO is genuinely independent on local stories. The eight Renoir-heist reports, each independently written, correctly stay at 8. Across 91 multi-item clusters: 174 buckets -> 163 true origins. Note this is the one place a lexical comparison is right. Clustering fails on lexical methods because paraphrases share no wording, which is why the SimHash stage was measured and deleted -- but syndicated copy is literally the same bytes. First formulation was wrong and the data caught it: summing syndication groups and solo buckets produced 3 origins for a 2-bucket cluster. Syndication may only ever reduce corroboration, which the union-find guarantees and a test asserts.
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@@ -64,7 +64,8 @@ def test_machinery_values_are_read_from_config(cfgdir):
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assert cfg.http["timeout_secs"] == 7
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assert cfg.http["concurrency"] == 3
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assert cfg.embedding == {"model": "intfloat/multilingual-e5-small", "dim": 512}
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assert cfg.clustering == {"threshold": 0.5, "window_hours": 6}
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assert cfg.clustering["threshold"] == 0.5
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assert cfg.clustering["window_hours"] == 6
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assert cfg.scoring["veto_absolute"] == 0.99
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