On 27 October 2026 the Kansspelautoriteit (Ksa), the Dutch gambling regulator, published a media guide for journalists who cover gambling and gambling harm. The Ksa calls the document a "mediahandreiking" and says it is meant to help newsrooms report on the subject carefully.
The guide sets out several points of attention and suggests specific words, along with how to use them.
According to the Ksa, that vocabulary can counter negative framing of people affected by gambling harm. The regulator also says the way the media discuss gambling plays an important role in how the public views it. That is the regulator's assessment; the release presents no measurement behind it.
The guide also stresses the added value of placing a disclaimer on articles about gambling. To support the idea, the regulator says disclaimers are already widely used in reporting on suicide, though the release cites no document backing that comparison. It also says it hopes the practice will become standard in gambling reporting in the short term, which is a hope rather than a decision or a rule.
Several things remain open. We have not seen the guide's word list or any model disclaimer text, and only the full guide can tell readers which terms the Ksa recommends and what it thinks a disclaimer should say.
Whether that hope comes true can be checked by counting how many Dutch gambling articles carry a disclaimer once the Ksa's "short term" has passed.
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