If the owner isn't registered with Google business, yes. Other users (local guides) are asked to confirm the change.
If they are registered, the request goes to the business owner to approve in my experience. We used to get lots of phantom requests telling us our opening hours had changed but if you're registered you can just decline them.
This sounds like you're either forced to work with them, or they can just publish pretty much anything and claim plausible deniability about whether it's true or not?
The alternative is just only including info from registered businesses. If a third party provides info on an unregistered business, Google could reach out to the business to confirm and ask if they want to register. Unless they say yes, they can just not include it. Having a smaller set of correct information is better than a larger set of mixed correct and incorrect information is better for pretty much everyone...other than Google, of course.
I am a Local Guide and Google never prompts me to confirm anything.
Local Guides are ordinary unpaid Google accounts who submit reviews, photos, and other edits as I’ve detailed here. We are sometimes prompted to answer questions, but only with a blank to fill in.
If they are registered, the request goes to the business owner to approve in my experience. We used to get lots of phantom requests telling us our opening hours had changed but if you're registered you can just decline them.