{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/separate-creator-identity-from-claim-support",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0426",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Separate creator identity from claim support",
  "summary": "A credible author can still make an unsupported sentence.",
  "kind": "checklist",
  "body": "Record two separate things: who or what is responsible for the artifact, and which evidence supports each material claim. Authorship helps assess accountability and context; claim support determines whether a particular proposition is justified. This separation prevents reputation from becoming a universal evidence edge.",
  "limits": [
    "Source expertise and institutional role can legitimately affect evidentiary weight; the rule is to keep that influence explicit."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-provenance-verification"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-36D653DA482EBF19"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "C2PA separates provenance declarations about creation and transformation from the content's semantic truth, implying that who made an asset, how it changed and whether its claims are supported are different questions.",
      "source_id": "RS-36D653DA482EBF19",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "The practical separation is an editorial inference from the standard's explicit boundary and should be adapted to the domain.",
      "locator": "Provenance versus truth"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "A trusted person or organization authored a document and their reputation is being used as evidence for every statement inside it."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Source expertise and institutional role can legitimately affect evidentiary weight; the rule is to keep that influence explicit."
  ],
  "example": "A regulator-authored report is highly accountable, but a speculative forecast inside it should still be labeled as a forecast rather than an established fact.",
  "check": "A reader can tell whether trust comes from source identity, claim evidence or both.",
  "checklist": [
    "Creator or publisher identity is recorded separately.",
    "Material claims are extracted explicitly.",
    "Each claim has its own supporting, limiting or contrary evidence.",
    "Unsupported claims remain unsupported even inside a trusted artifact.",
    "Corrections can update a claim without rewriting the artifact's creator identity."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-36D653DA482EBF19",
      "title": "C2PA and Content Credentials Explainer",
      "url": "https://spec.c2pa.org/specifications/specifications/2.2/explainer/Explainer.html"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-3F875FF96207B5CE",
      "title": "Trace where information came from before deciding whether to trust it",
      "url": "/collections/trace-where-information-came-from-before-deciding-whether-to-trust-it"
    }
  ]
}