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1. Nov 5, 2026 at 5:22 PM

   November 2026: Corrected the date of the 1953 Plaza Hotel meeting and of the Jeffrey Wigand broadcast (4 February 1996), the company William Campbell led (Philip Morris USA, not Brown & Williamson), and the settlement and document figures; added a claim statement and primary-source citations for the 2006 racketeering judgment and its 2009 affirmance, the court-ordered corrective statements and the limits of the record; replaced broken source links.

2. Apr 25, 2026 at 5:12 AM

   Backfilled bibliographic source URL for the 4-week content gap source-integrity pass.