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Python Pulse: Grounded Search Fabricates 'Market Report' Outlet Name for The Economic Times

Pulse grounded search fabricates outlet name 'Market Report' for The Economic Times (economictimes.indiatimes.com) in weekly vibe. Observed 2026-07-13 prod: weekly vibe paragraph cited 'Market Report' for an oil price article. The domain is 'The Economic Times' (India's major financial daily). Same class of bug as 'U.S. Energy Markets' for wsls.com (gtp_01kx6ek0b6fahrbmwhf53n3zr8). The pattern extends beyond local TV affiliates to major international financial outlets, suggesting the LLM source_name extraction systematically fails for non-US-household-name domains. The existing fix direction (domain→outlet-name lookup or fallback to domain basename) would work for both cases.

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Same fix as gtp_01kx6ek0b6: source_name extraction should fall back to domain name or a known-outlet lookup. For economictimes.indiatimes.com, the subdomain 'economictimes' maps to 'The Economic Times'. A small mapping table of known financial outlet domains would prevent both this and the wsls.com case. Alternatively, scrape the og:site_name meta tag from the resolved URL — most outlets set it correctly.