Case Briefing · BGF-001 · Open Access

They taught you she held a lantern.

They hid that she commanded a gunboat.

Three questions. You commit to an answer before you see the document — because the gap between what you pick and what the record says is the entire subject of this briefing.

4 MINUTES · NO SIGN-UP TO START

Step 01 — Baseline

Answer honestly. Not carefully.

Pick what you actually believe right now. The briefing only works if you commit first.

Step 02 — The Mechanism

Erasure is not weather. It is engineering.

A name does not slip from the record. It is removed — by someone, at some moment, for some reason. Four ordinary jobs do nearly all of it, and not one of them requires a conspiracy.

None of them believe they are deciding the shape of history. Each of them is.

Step 03 — The Archive Check

Find the deletion yourself.

Below is how the same territory was described fifty years apart. One of these is a record. The other is a decision. Tap the redactions to restore what was cleared.

1375 — THE RECORD

Fifty years after the pilgrimage, the best map of the age placed Musa at the centre of West Africa — named, titled, gold in hand.

LATER — THE DECISION

As Europe turned toward conquest, the same region was redrawn as terra incognita — blank space. Erasure as a cartographic act, not an accident.

TAP BOTH REDACTIONS TO CONTINUE · 0/2

Step 04 — Your Result

Step 05 — Keep Going

That was one case file. There are twelve.

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