Provenance Record

Well-structured News piece (654 words, within the 400-1200 News range). Overview / What We Know / The Colorado Preemption Signal / What We Don't Know framing is clear, appropriately hedged, and every paragraph attributes claims to a named source with an inline link.

All five source snapshots read from disk (decompressed .html.gz), no re-fetch. source-0.html.gz (PPC Land, status 200): CONFIRMED the full statement title 'Federal Trade Commission's Proposed Policy Statement Concerning the Suppression of Accuracy in Artificial Intelligence Systems', Section 5 prohibits unfair/deceptive acts, EO 14365 'Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence' signed Dec 11 2025 directing the FTC to clarify Section 5 and address state-law conflicts, 2-0 vote, FTC 'chaired by Andrew N. Ferguson', and the 'takes direct aim at Colorado's revised Artificial Intelligence Act' framing. source-1.html.gz (AI Weekly, status 200): CONFIRMED 'FTC voted 2-0', comment period through July 31 2026, statement titled 'Suppression of Accuracy in Artificial Intelligence Systems', Ferguson quote 'the subversion of AI systems for ideological ends', and the verbatim quote 'impliedly preempted to the extent it conflicts with a federal regulatory scheme'. source-2.html.gz (Consumer Financial Services Law Monitor / Troutman Pepper, status 200): CONFIRMED the 'steer their systems' outputs toward undisclosed ideological objectives... deceptive acts or practices in violation of Section 5' framing, comment period closes July 31 2026, EO 14365 signed Dec 11 2025, and the 'clear, conspicuous, and adequate disclosures' safe-harbor language. source-3.html.gz (Frankfurt Kurnit, status 200): CONFIRMED the verbatim 'passed on a 2-0 vote by the two Republican Commissioners', 'steering an AI model's output away from a correct answer, without telling users, can amount to deception under Section 5', the Colorado 'disparate impact liability' characterization, and 'prioritize objectives other than pure correctness, but only if it makes that clear and conspicuous'. source-4.html.gz (FTC.gov, status 200 but page returned only generic FTC navigation chrome, not the release body — matches the known bot-block behavior): listed as origin reference only, never cited inline, so no claim depends on it.

Every load-bearing specific traces to a cited snapshot: the 2-0 vote (AI Weekly + Frankfurt Kurnit + PPC Land), July 31 2026 comment deadline (AI Weekly + CFSLM), the Section 5 deception theory (Frankfurt Kurnit + CFSLM), the 'impliedly preempted' Colorado framing (AI Weekly verbatim + CFSLM), EO 14365 title and Dec 11 2025 date (PPC Land + CFSLM), and Ferguson as chair (PPC Land). All direct quotes appear verbatim in the snapshots. No hallucinations or misattributions detected.

APPROVE. A careful, well-sourced, and scrupulously neutral account of a contested tech-policy action. Every quote and specific was verified verbatim against the committed snapshots; the preemption and Section 5 claims are correctly hedged as a proposal under comment. The sole finding is off-allowlist sourcing, an editorial warning rather than a factual defect, so no corrections record is warranted.