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Verification: trafficking Do page, claims added since 5 November — 2026-11-06

The working record behind the pages, published as written. Source file source/verify/trafficking-do-2026-11-06.md. All records.

Scope. Every claim in a line of content/trafficking-do.html that was added or changed between ee6f7b8 and 4764ebf (HEAD on 6 Nov 2026) and has no row in source/verify/trafficking-2026-11-05.md. That covers the rebuild of 5 November (built from source/impact/trafficking-2026-11-05.md, several names written from memory) and the help-now, consent and languages lines of 6 November. The names the brief listed as written from memory (Szablewska and Kubacki; the Work in Freedom/SWiFT evaluation; Re:Structure Lab; LeBaron; Raposa et al.; the Polaris temporary-visa report; the Freedom Network USA report; USCIS T-visa figures; HHS hotline data and the OPRE evaluation; the GEMS audit; the airline cases) were each re-read at the source, even where a 5 November row exists. Claims with a 5 November row are listed by row number at the end and were not re-graded.

Decision this feeds. Whether each sentence on the Do page may stay, must change, or must lose its claim. Who decides: Isaac, through the coordinator. This file grades; the page edits listed in "Changes made" are the fixes the brief authorised (wrong figures, dates, titles, attributions; claims the source doesn't make; wrong grades). Nothing was committed.

Method. Read 2026-11-06, 09:35–10:04 EST. Pages were fetched with curl and a Safari user agent into one new folder per source and converted to text with a one-file script run with python3 -I; PDFs with pdftotext; the USCIS spreadsheet by unzipping its XML. Pages that refuse scripts were rendered in headless Chrome ([local working file]): the Wayback copy of the confidentiality policy, Springer, SAGE and Wiley. Charity Navigator scores are the rating.score and stars fields embedded in each profile page (data stamped updatedAt 2026-11-02). Two web searches were used only to find documents (a 119th-Congress version of H.R. 2601; FY2026 OVC grants); no claim rests on a search summary. Working files: [local working file] (not kept in the repo).

Verdicts. CONFIRMED (source's words in hand) · CORRECTED (page wording or citation was off; fix applied) · NOT IN SOURCE (the source does not say it; claim removed or reworded) · NEWER DATA (a later figure or round exists) · UNREACHABLE (DNS/proxy/timeout) · BLOCKED (403/405/script-only) · UNFETCHABLE (the host says the page is gone) · OWN (the site's own estimate, advice or judgement; listed, not counted).

Grades (site scale): primary · research · charity's own figures · programme's own figures · evaluator · news · our arithmetic.

Source fetch log (all 2026-11-06, EST)

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Rows

Page text is quoted as it stood at 4764ebf, before today's fixes.

Top of page

Step 1, pay for recovery (s3)

Step 2, a bad job and the number (s4)

Step 3, enforcement workers run (s5)

Near you

Where to give (s6, s7, s8)

What a bad job looks like (s4, s9, s10, s11)

How to report, and what happens after (s2, s12, s14)

The operator notice (s12, s15)

Back enforcement that workers run (s5, s7, s16)

If you have a teenager (s17)

Ask for one thing (s3, s15)

One more, and the questions (s12, s15, s18)

Sources list, other entries

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Consent sentences and the languages line, against source/impact/needs-2026-11-06.md

All four were read again today and match the needs file's quotes word for word: the "When you reach us" consent sentence (T56, T59, T99), the confidentiality policy's consent and exceptions sentences (T103), and the languages sentence on About us (T4). None was changed. The needs file's note holds: the word "adult" appears on none of these pages, and the page no longer uses it.

Changes made to content/trafficking-do.html

Old → new, with the row that justifies each.

1. Lede (T2, T3): "back the one kind of enforcement that has worked. Every action carries a label…" → "back enforcement that workers run. Each step carries a label…"
2. Step 1 (T7, T9, T11): "2026 is the year the money for them ran out: more than a hundred federal victim-service grants ended on 1 October 2025 with $88 million unreleased. … with 81,695 waiting." → "Federal money for them lapsed in October 2025: more than a hundred victim-service grants ended on 1 October, with $88 million still unreleased in March 2026. … with 81,695 waiting in June 2026."
3. Step 2 (T20): "No study shows that public awareness finds victims; the one evaluation of awareness training found it didn't reduce forced labour." → "No study shows that public awareness finds victims. In Nepal, an evaluation of awareness training found that knowing the risks didn't lower women's risk of forced labour."
4. Step 3 (T28, T31): "the model that works has workers reporting abuse…" → "the alternative has workers reporting abuse…"; "covers more than 20,000 farmworkers and resolved 3,919 complaints in 2024." → "covers more than 20,000 farmworkers, and workers on its farms brought 3,919 complaints to its hotline from 2011 to 2024."
5. Where to give (T35): "few have been independently checked" → "few of those results have been rigorously tested".
6. Signs (T49): "Among trafficked workers on US temporary visas, 59%…" → "Among trafficked workers on US temporary visas who reached the hotline, 59%…"
7. Not signs (T51, T52): "Speaking another language, living where you work, travelling with someone of a different race. Trained airline staff have reported interracial and adoptive families as traffickers at least four times since 2017; none were." → "Speaking another language, travelling with someone of a different race. Airline staff, some trained to spot trafficking, have reported mixed-race families as traffickers at least three times; none were."
8. How to report (T55): "The hotline is built as a service for the person, not a tip line about them." → "The hotline is built first to get the person help. It also takes tips, and passes them on only in some cases." (The consent sentence after it is unchanged.)
9. What happens after (T60, T61, T62): "3,643 of the 13,623 situations the hotline identified went to the police, and a federal evaluation found the hotline "has no influence…". A fifth of its contacts come from victims themselves.[14]" → "3,643 of the 13,623 potential situations the hotline identified were reported to law enforcement, and a federal evaluation notes that once a report is made, the hotline "has no influence…".[14] In 2025 a fifth of its contacts came from victims themselves.[2]"
10. Operator notice (T67, T69, T70): "Compass is a federal child-shelter contractor with two stars from Charity Navigator and no published tip-sharing policy, and its federal contract requires a "law enforcement engagement plan" that could change how tips are shared." → "Compass runs federally funded shelters for unaccompanied children, has two stars from Charity Navigator and has published no tip-sharing policy of its own, and its federal grant requires a "law enforcement engagement plan" to "standardize how tips are shared"."
11. Fair Food item (T75, T76): "20,000+ workers covered, 3,919 complaints handled, $638,948 in wages recovered. Don't hunt for the label on tomatoes; it's on a few chains' produce only, and the programme itself doesn't ask shoppers to look for it." → "20,000+ workers covered; from 2011 to 2024, 3,919 complaints from workers and $638,948 in wages recovered. The tomato label itself is rare: the programme names only Whole Foods, Giant and Stop & Shop."
12. Labels item (T81, T82): "Audits and certifications are "contradicted" as a safeguard in the research; worker-driven monitoring is the mechanism independent reviewers point to." → "Research calls audits and certification "ineffective" at catching forced labour, and points to monitoring led by workers instead."
13. Teen (T85): "It received about 137 reports a day in 2025, and most kids who don't tell anyone say it's because they feared getting in trouble." → "It received about 137 reports a day in 2025. In a survey of young sextortion victims, most who kept it from family and friends said shame or fear of getting in trouble stopped them."
14. Policy ask 1 (T91): "Release the victim-service grants that ended on 1 October 2025, and fund them in the next budget." → "Fund victim-service grants without gaps: more than a hundred ended on 1 October 2025, and their replacements weren't due to start until July 2026."
15. Policy ask 3 (T93–T95): "Bills that would make it share every tip with police, like H.R. 2601, would turn a survivor's lifeline into a tip line; survivor groups and the hotline's former operator oppose them." → "A 2023 bill, H.R. 2601, would have made it share what it hears with state and local police on request; survivor groups said that would turn a lifeline into a tip line, and Polaris, then its operator, opposed it. The bill never reached the House floor." ("Keep the hotline consent-based." is unchanged.)
16. Q&A, reporting wrong (T101): "leave out language, race and living arrangements" → "leave out language and race".
17. Q&A, trustworthy (T104): "the new contract requires a plan" → "the new grant requires a plan".
18. Q&A, neighbourhood watch (T105, T106): "Watch-style formats have produced false reports and no measured benefit, and the viral "vans and zip ties" posts the hotline already knows about come from the same impulse." → "We found no study that measured a benefit from watching strangers for signs, and people on the lookout have made false reports, like the airline cases above. The viral posts the hotline already knows about come from the same impulse."
19. s4 (T22–T25): "2022 (59%)" → "2022 (hotline cases 2018 to 2020; 59%)"; "SWiFT briefing, 2017 … research report, 2019 (awareness training did not reduce forced labour; hotlines "should never be oversold")" → "SWiFT briefing, May 2017 … research report, February 2019 (a woman's risk of forced labour "was not influenced by" her awareness of risks)".
20. s11 (T53): "Four reported misidentifications by airline staff, 2017 to 2023, via Jalopnik (2021) and Live and Let's Fly; the training programme is Airline Ambassadors." → "Reported misidentifications by airline staff: three mixed-race families, via Jalopnik (9 November 2021), and a father with his 13-year-old daughter in 2023, via Live and Let's Fly; Airline Ambassadors is one group that trains airline staff to spot trafficking." Links unchanged.
21. s14 (T64, T65): parenthetical as in T64; "2024" → "December 2023".
22. s15 (T71, T73): "30 September 2025" → "22 September 2025"; the Charity Navigator rating split out and graded evaluator.
23. s17 (T86): the Thorn entry now names and links the report that holds the figure (https://www.thorn.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Sextortion_Wave2Report_121919.pdf), a corrected URL for the source already cited.

Kept as they were: every phone number, short code, giving link, contact card, id anchor, notice box, list class and all six evidence spans; the sentences that state the consent rule; checked: 5 Nov 2026. Checks after the edits: python3 tools/build.py then python3 tools/audit.py --quiet → 0 problems; python3 tools/links.py → 0 problems. The gate's lock checks run on this page alone (its own functions, read-only) show giving links, phone numbers, contact cards, emails and the consent sentences unchanged, and one new host: www.thorn.org (from item 23), so tools/gate.py will report LOCKED for a person to look at. Ticks on the changed checklist items (Fair Food, labels, the two policy asks) reset for readers, because ticks are keyed by item text.

Summary by verdict

Counted over rows T1–T110 (OWN rows listed, not counted).

110 numbered rows (96 verdicts + 14 OWN).

CORRECTED (29): T7, T20, T28, T31, T35, T51, T52, T53, T55, T61, T62, T64, T65, T67, T69, T70, T71, T73, T75, T76, T81, T82, T85, T86, T93, T94, T101, T104, T105. NOT IN SOURCE (4): T2, T3, T25, T106. NEWER DATA (1): T91. The coordinator's findings: 1 = T2; 2 = T7; 3 = T52 and T53. Each was re-read at the source and confirmed; the fixes use the wording the overview and Practice pages now carry. The HHS column names, the OPRE date and sentence, the 10,971 of 52,664 and the 5% are T60–T65. The Rothman survivor-mentor study does not appear on this page.

Claims with a 5 November row, not re-graded: the 49.6 million (D1, O1); cases in every state (D2); the number, text line, anonymity and 911 (O2–O4, D3); signs lists (D6, D7); myths line (D8); report routes, CyberTipline, IC3 and viral posts (D9–D12); the advocate, supervisor, recording and updates sentences (D13); the operator months (L12b, D14a); the ICE line (D15); Bryant and Landman (D16, L21, L32); Sanctuary, Restore and GEMS service descriptions (D17–D19); Freedom Fund counting rule and one-time gifts (D20, P13); Exodus Road and IJM paperwork (D21); NCMEC sextortion figures and the teen script (D22, D23); BBBS NYC and mentoring effects (D25); hotline contacts and cases (D26); "Labels and audits miss forced labour" (D29a) and import bans (D29b); 42% to 36% (D30); the 41 attorneys general (D31b); GLOTIP, DHS, DOL dates (D33).

Proposals for files outside this page (proposals only)

1. s16 funding disclosure. The Re:Structure Lab brief thanks "Humanity United and Freedom Fund for project funding", and the Freedom Fund is on this page's give list. The impact review (D, "Stronger-evidence organisations") already says this "should be disclosed where that work is cited". Adding "(funded by Humanity United and the Freedom Fund)" to s16 is a new claim, so it is left to Isaac.
2. The "oversold" quote. If the page should keep "hotlines should never be oversold", cite its real source, the SWiFT three-country report: https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/files/SWIFT-Report-on-a-three-country-theory-based-evaluation-to-promote-safer-migration.pdf (new link).
3. The training finding. The strongest sourced sentence is in Zimmerman et al. 2021, Frontiers in Public Health: "participation in trainings did not reduce the likelihood of experiencing forced labor" (https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10135386/1/fpubh-09-645059.pdf). Citing it would let step 2 say "training" rather than "knowing the risks" (new link).
4. Citation gaps on this page. "Most trafficking is a job that went wrong" (T17) and "most trafficking worldwide is labour" (T47) cite nothing that says so; footnotes to s10 (hotline Myths) and s1 (ILO) would cover them. The label sentence (T76) rests on https://fairfoodprogram.org/marketing, and the H.R. 2601 sentence (T93) on GovInfo's bill text and status and the National Survivor Network letter, none of them in the sources list.
5. "Contested" (s1). Cite Walby and Francis 2024 (https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/226017/1/published_version_s11205-024-03474-w.pdf), as the impact review (D12) suggested.
6. s6 traceability. Cite Human Rights Watch 2010 and GAATW 2007 directly for the raid-and-rescue harm record; at present the walk stops at the site's own impact review.
7. Evidence labels on "How to report". The impact review grades the hotline "moderate" as a number to give the person, "weak" as a third-party tip line, and IC3 "moderate" for recovering money. With labels there, the lede could say "every action" again.
8. stale.tsv. Add: USCIS I-914 FY2026 Q4 (not posted on 6 Nov 2026); OVC FY2026 trafficking awards (expected from 1 Jan 2027) and whether the FY2025 replacements started on 1 July 2026; HHS OTIP FY2026 hotline data; the Compass "law enforcement engagement plan" (watch for publication); FFP's 2025 State of the Program report.
9. Step 1. "are what let a survivor stay free" is an untested causal claim (T6); "help a survivor stay free" says what the evidence supports.
10. Q&A wording. "The hotline is built for uncertain tips" could become "The hotline takes reports of potential situations", the FAQ's words. Not changed here because the sentence also states the consent rule and the gate locks on it.
11. Other trafficking pages (another agent's files). Check for the same errors found here: "3,919 complaints … in 2024" (programme-to-date, 2011–2024); "contract" for the HHS hotline award (a grant, a cooperative agreement); 30 September 2025 for the HHS release (22 September); the Thorn 79% attributed to the June 2024 report (it is the 2017 survey); "living where you work" as a non-sign (the hotline lists "Live where they work"); "built as a service … not a tip line" (the hotline "also receives tips").
12. Redirects. s9's DHS link now redirects to https://www.dhs.gov/blue-campaign/identify-victim; s15's HHS release to https://acf.gov/press/press-release/hhs-invests-35-million-human-trafficking. Both work; the canonical URLs could replace them.
13. Footer date. The page still says "Facts checked 5 Nov 2026"; every claim has now been read on 5 or 6 November.

Time: what goes stale, and when

• Hotline pages, read 6 Nov 2026 09:35–09:57 EST. The consent and confidentiality text is unchanged since at least 25 Apr 2025 (Wayback). HHS requires a "law enforcement engagement plan" that will "standardize how tips are shared"; when it is published, T66, T69, T70, T98–T99 and T103 need a fresh read. This is the corner that matters: a reader acting on today's consent text after the plan changes it cannot undo a report.
• HHS OTIP data: fiscal year 2025, page updated 1 Sep 2026; FY2026 figures expected after this cycle's update.
• USCIS T-visa data: FY2026 Q3 (to June 2026), queried July 2026, listed with the Q3 files of September 2026; Q4 not posted on 6 Nov 2026.
• FNUSA: as of March 2026. FY2025 replacement grants were due 1 July 2026 (not verified); the FY2026 round awards from 1 Jan 2027.
• Charity Navigator: data stamped 2 Nov 2026; ratings rest on FY2024 or FY2025 filings.
• Fair Food Program: report data to Season 13 (2023–24); the next report is due.
• H.R. 2601: 118th Congress, ended; re-check for a 119th-Congress version before using it again.

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