Legacy illustration — minimal record
New Hampshire AI robocall
Primary theory: Synthetic Reality Capture (F)
Secondary theories: Reality and Meaning Mediation (E); Differentiated Systems Coordination Collapse (C); Repair-Lag Systems Theory (D); Acceleration–Fragmentation–Reward (A)
Case verdict: Documents a synthetic-media event and governance response; illustrates provenance and response-timing questions without establishing incremental verification cost or behavioral effect.
Key falsifier: Synthetic incidents are no harder to verify or neutralize than matched conventional deception and show no incremental behavioral or trust effect.
Work required for a typed case: define the unit and period, valued condition, pressure, repair process, adequacy threshold, power and distribution, strongest rival, source trail, and role-distinct comparison.