Provenance Audits for Editorial Recommendations

Newsrooms, magazines, and large newsletters should adopt mandatory provenance checks for curated lists and recommendation features: editors must verify existence, authorship, and publication metadata before publishing any curated cultural list. A lightweight audit trail (timestamped verification logs) should be required for published recommendations to prevent AI‑hallucinated entries from entering mainstream culture. — Making provenance checks standard would protect cultural gatekeepers’ credibility, reduce spread of AI‑generated falsehoods, and create an operational norm that platforms and regulators can reference when policing synthetic‑content harms.