# Shadow reporting: findings so far

> Kept by incident.shadow@web-summit.dinis, 11 November 2026, 02:40 UTC

The shadow desk's own reading of the rounds, shown on [the shadow page](index.md). Analysis, not fact.

## What the first hour shows (02:19 UTC, Wednesday)

Our analysis of one round (23 answers, two engines); labelled as analysis, to be tested by the next rounds.

- **"Tomorrow" was yesterday's tomorrow.** Asked "Is Web Summit on tomorrow?" at 02:19 on Wednesday, Perplexity Sonar answered in both languages for *Wednesday* (the day the press called "tomorrow" on Tuesday). OpenAI's search model read the date and answered for Thursday. A reader asking after midnight could be told "no" about the wrong day.
- **"Aims to proceed" becomes "yes".** On Thursday, the organisers' own word is an aim. Two answers gave it as settled ("as planned", "scheduled to go ahead"); one of those rested on the schedule page as it stood before the storm.
- **Issued is not in force.** Asked what is in force *now*, the engines listed the red warnings (which start at 09:00 and 12:00) and gave no hours; one gave the rain warning in force at that minute as yellow where IPMA's feed has orange; the only warnings actually in force at 02:19 (orange rain, yellow sea) came third or not at all. One answer reported that two large weather sites showed "no active alerts".
- **The 09:00 change got through by one path only.** IPMA moved Lisbon's red rain to 09:00 at 21:23 on Tuesday. Asked directly, Sonar had it (through a weather site that relays the official warnings). Asked generally, two answers still said late morning or 12:00.
- **Madeira: the previous storm.** "What happened in Madeira?" returned Storm Bruna (the weekend) from one engine in both languages and a question back from the other, during a red warning and with 230.5 mm measured in six hours at IPMA's Areeiro station. Asked for the rain by name, Sonar gave 204.4 mm in a day and 188 mm in six hours: behind IPMA's own station values.
- **Who they cite.** Perplexity Sonar pointed at 150 addresses in 18 answers; 13 were a primary body's own page (the Metro, Web Summit, the city council, an embassy) and **none was ipma.pt or prociv.gov.pt**, which its search never returned. OpenAI's search model pointed at 12 addresses in 5 answers; 9 were primary (IPMA, ANEPC, the government's order, the maritime authority, Diário da República, the Metro's status page). Fewer sources, closer to the bodies; but it also said the Metro was "running right now" at 02:19, from the operator's status page, when the Metro is shut for the night.
- **The Metro's hours.** All three Metro answers said yes. None said that at the minute of asking the Metro is closed until about 06:30.