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RAGHard· Data Freshness· System Debugging· Citation Chains

You tighten your freshness filter from 24 months to 6 m...

The freshness filter is testing the time difference between the current time and the most recent citation hop. Because the laundering process involves re-citing information, the most recent hop is always recent, even if the original information is stale. Tightening the threshold treats the symptom as a calibration issue rather than recognizing the missing signal regarding the original source date.

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