When community mood in the AI misinformation conversation shifted toward optimism in a single news cycle, no correction had arrived. Grok's outputs during the Iran conflict remained the documented record [1], the accuracy tracker cataloguing its failures remained active , and xAI had offered no structural change to how the tool handles breaking news. What changed was framing, not fact — and that distinction is the story's load-bearing claim. A community that moves from dread to optimism without new evidence is demonstrating that its relationship to the tool was never…