# Source note — Common Sense / Australia electrification TikTok

Date captured: 2026-08-30
Original short URL: https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSVcNkoNH/
Resolved TikTok URL: https://www.tiktok.com/@lori30941/video/7680004621561023765
Video ID: 7680004621561023765
TikTok metadata username in fallback endpoint: lori30941
Duration: 177 seconds
Title assigned by user/PBC: Common Sense

## Capture notes
- TikTok webpage presented a slider CAPTCHA in browser.
- `yt-dlp` could not extract TikTok universal data.
- A fallback TikTok download endpoint returned the MP4; PBC preserved the fallback metadata JSON.
- Preserved MP4: `tiktok-video.mp4`.
- Preserved cover: `tiktok-cover.jpg`.
- Preserved transcript: `sources/transcript-faster-whisper-base.txt`.
- Preserved frame sheet: `sources/frame-contact-sheet.jpg`.
- Preserved ffprobe: `sources/ffprobe.json`.

## Source/context files
- Australian Government energy.gov.au electricity generation page.
- DFAT Australia-China country brief.
- Natural Resources Canada oil-reserves search trail / official-source attempt.
- Search trails for Australian coal, uranium and electrification claims.

## Editorial caution
The TikTok is commentary, not a formal policy paper. It makes broad claims about coal, uranium, electrification, oil, China and lockdown policy. PBC preserves the video and checks the strongest claims at a high level without treating colourful language as exact data.
