What Telangana was talking about, and when
61 six-hour frames across the collection window. Each frame is the complete state of knowledge as at that instant — the map, the topic mix, the sources that had appeared and the claims already circulating. Scrub back far enough and the map is genuinely empty, which is the point.
Shading is cumulative records naming each district as at 02 Sep 20:04. The scale is fixed across all frames (maximum 117) so the map is comparable as it plays.
Frames replay what the system holds, not what existed. A record published on the 28th but captured on the 30th appears at its publication time here, which is correct for historical reading and wrong for answering “what could we have known at the time”. That second question needs capture-time replay — a different view, and not this one.