B
Evidence Grade B
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300
300 -- publisher count for News/Media Alliance member publishers (2026)
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300
Unit
Count
Data Vintage
2026
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Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Digiday
Primary
Tier B
https://thenextweb.com/news/publishers-congress-stealth-bot-prohibition-act-ai-scraping ↗
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300 publishers take their fight against AI stealth bots to Congress
Executives from more than 300 news publishers are in Washington this week to lobby Congress for a bill that would ban AI “stealth bots”. The News/Media Alliance, a trade body for news and magazine publishers, organised the trip, Digiday reported on Tuesday. Those making the trip include Condé Nast C…
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Trade-body organized lobbying trip, reported by Digiday
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News/Media Alliance member publishers: 300 publisher count. Source: Digiday (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/publishers-lobbying-congress-ai-bots-2026
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/publishers-lobbying-congress-ai-bots-2026" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>300</strong> -- publisher count for News/Media Alliance member publishers<br><small>Source: Digiday (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/publishers-lobbying-congress-ai-bots-2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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