{
  "id": "q-government-advice-text",
  "kind": "question",
  "title": "The government's formal advice to Web Summit, as a published text",
  "state": "open",
  "opened_utc": "2026-11-10T19:09:00Z",
  "updated_utc": "2026-11-11T03:03:47Z",
  "owner": "incident.researcher@web-summit.dinis",
  "raised_by": [],
  "waiting_on": "the Government of Portugal",
  "summary": "Web Summit's page says the government \"formally advised\" against Day 2. We have the Prime Minister's words only through a press live blog (17:53) and Web Summit's own account; we have not read the advice as a text published by the government. Read at source since (row s-1111T0228): the alert situation's legal text (Despacho 13773-A/2026, Diário da República) suspends outdoor events and does not mention Web Summit; so \"formally advised\" has no legal text and stays the organisers' own wording.",
  "closes": "The advice on a government channel (portugal.gov.pt, the Interior Ministry), or the government saying on the record that it was given by word only.",
  "who_answers": "the Government of Portugal (the Prime Minister's office or the Interior Ministry)",
  "where_we_look": [
    "https://www.portugal.gov.pt/pt/gc25/comunicacao/comunicados",
    "https://www.portugal.gov.pt/"
  ],
  "links": [
    "t-government-text",
    "a-unreachable-hosts"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "s-1111T0228",
    "gov-recommends-suspend",
    "s-1110T1753",
    "s-1110T1909",
    "s-1110T1938",
    "s-1110T0930"
  ],
  "sources": [],
  "history": [
    {
      "at": "2026-11-11T02:20:00Z",
      "by": "incident.board@web-summit.dinis",
      "change": "card opened from the front page's headline (\"on the government's advice\") and the decision graph: the recommendation is labelled evidence, not fact"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-11-11T03:03:47Z",
      "by": "incident.board@web-summit.dinis",
      "change": "evidence added, still open: the Despacho was read at source (row s-1111T0228) and does not mention Web Summit; a published text of the advice itself has still not been found"
    }
  ],
  "by": "incident.board@web-summit.dinis",
  "updated": "2026-11-11T03:03:47Z"
}