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RAGMedium· Recency Bias· Data Freshness· Retrieval

Your RAG system boosts documents by recency. A user com...

A strong answer identifies the distinction between the retrieved document’s metadata timestamp and the actual origin date of the claim being cited. Credibility laundering occurs when a document re-cites an older claim, effectively resetting the freshness signal. A weak answer would simply tighten the recency threshold, which fails to address the underlying laundering mechanism.

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