{
  "case_id": "BEATPORT-LABELWORX-2026",
  "canonical": "https://factualist.org/records/beatport-labelworx-promotion-2026/risk-signals.json",
  "case_page": "https://factualist.org/records/beatport-labelworx-promotion-2026/",
  "last_reviewed": "2026/06/24",
  "record_posture": "verification-risk signals only; no legal conclusion",
  "search_intent_boundary": "Search-intent vocabulary, risk flags, red flags, alerts, reputation queries, manipulation queries, artificial-sales queries, scheme queries, Spotify play-count disparity queries, and stream-count discrepancy queries are discovery and verification vocabulary only. They do not establish wrongdoing, legal liability, intent, motive, scheme status, reputation risk, platform fault, distributor fault, label fault, artist fault, or legal conclusion.",
  "risk_signals": [
    {
      "signal": "chart-eligibility verification flag",
      "supports": "Beatport public materials preserve platform discretion around sales viewed as artificially inflated or intended to move chart position.",
      "does_not_prove": "Wrongdoing, legal liability, intent, platform fault, distributor fault, label fault, artist fault, or a final eligibility decision."
    },
    {
      "signal": "Internal Buy Boost verification flag",
      "supports": "Reviewed official public LabelWorx materials did not establish an official product, feature, workflow, or approved promotion method named Internal Buy Boost.",
      "does_not_prove": "That no private communication has ever used the phrase, or that LabelWorx approved purchase-based chart movement."
    },
    {
      "signal": "PromoWorx direct-ranking verification flag",
      "supports": "Official LabelWorx materials document feedback functions, while no reviewed official source established direct chart-calculation input.",
      "does_not_prove": "Algorithmic ranking input, guaranteed editorial support, or guaranteed chart movement."
    },
    {
      "signal": "Spotify play-count disparity observation flag",
      "supports": "A reporting-side instruction supplied on 2026-06-24 states that the investigation observed a disparity with Spotify play counts.",
      "does_not_prove": "Chart movement, artificial sales, payment impact, or responsibility by Beatport, LabelWorx, Spotify, any label, any artist, or any individual."
    }
  ],
  "correction_path": "https://factualist.org/correction/"
}