Rockstar Games as a GTA 6 signal source

The desk treats Rockstar as the tier 1 first-party publisher. A Newswire post about GTA 6 collapses ambiguity on whatever claim it touches. Long silences carry as much signal as posts. The silence counter on the landing page is computed from the gap between today and the last GTA 6-relevant Newswire publication.

Cadence is months between meaningful posts. The desk records every page-modified header change even when the body looks unchanged; CDN regeneration produces false positives that the operator clears manually.

Rockstar evidence rows escalate a claim toward confirmed when the post is on-record and the wording supports the claim. Newswire silence does not by itself move a verdict; the desk records the silence and waits for the next first-party post.

On-topic Newswire posts mention GTA 6 by name, by the Grand Theft Auto VI long form, or by a Rockstar internal product code. Off-topic posts cover other titles, brand updates, or community programs; the desk records them as observations but classifies them off-topic for the silence counter. False breaks in silence happen when a page-modified header changes without a body diff; the most common cause is CDN regeneration. The desk applies a twenty-four-hour manual-review window on every flagged header change and treats the event as a false break if no body diff lands inside the window. The silence-counter reset trigger is a real body diff on an on-topic Newswire page, captured against the prior version of the page. Every diff is preserved in the audit log so the silence-reset event remains walkable. The topic hub at /topic/newswire-silence walks the desk methodology around the counter in full.