Claim LD10-HQ-C19 (v1.0)

Across 27 markets in DNR 2026, 4% of all respondents said they always/often click through from AI chatbot news answers; among chatbot-news users, the corresponding rate was about 42%.

Provenance and status

Claim type: ESTIMATE (as printed: “ESTIMATE”)
Publication status: ELIGIBLE (DENOMINATOR_VISIBLE) (as printed: “ELIGIBLE WITH DENOMINATOR VISIBLE”)
Verification state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (DENOMINATOR_RECONCILED) (as printed: “CONTENT VERIFIED / DENOMINATOR RECONCILED”; verified by: UNKNOWN)
Does not license: Contradiction between 4% and 42%, or observed click logs
Source (field 6, as printed): Reuters Institute DNR 2026 chapter + executive summary
Source type (field 7): SURVEY (as printed: “Cross-national survey”)
Institutional position: Independent academic research institute
Maturity (claim evidence / publication maturity): RAPIDLY_MATURING (as printed: “RAPIDLY MATURING”)
Recorded date: 2026-09-25
Currentness / correction: This is the current version. No correction or concern relation is recorded on its Sources.

Version

Pinned version v1.0 (entry LD10-HQ-C19--v1.0) — this page never floats to newer evidence.

This pinned version is also the current version.

Versions:v1.0 · current

Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)

“Reuters Institute DNR 2026 chapter + executive summary” → SRC-LD10-REUTERS-DNR-2026-CHAPTER-EXEC-SUMMARY--v1.0 — Reuters Institute DNR 2026 chapter + executive summary; class SURVEY (explicit public provenance pin)

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All 25 canonical Claim fields (raw values and normalized values)

#	Canonical field	Canonical value (verbatim)	Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2)
1	CLAIM ID	LD10-HQ-C19	—
2	PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM	Across 27 markets in DNR 2026, 4% of all respondents said they always/often click through from AI chatbot news answers; among chatbot-news users, the corresponding rate was about 42%.	—
3	CLAIM TYPE	ESTIMATE	base_types: ESTIMATE
4	RESEARCH STRAND	G — Referral behaviour	—
5	MATURITY	RAPIDLY MATURING	states: RAPIDLY_MATURING
6	SOURCE	Reuters Institute DNR 2026 chapter + executive summary	source_ids: SRC-LD10-REUTERS-DNR-2026-CHAPTER-EXEC-SUMMARY
7	SOURCE TYPE	Cross-national survey	classes: SURVEY
8	INSTITUTIONAL POSITION	Independent academic research institute	—
9	SCOPE	27-market click-through module	—
10	DESIGN	Survey self-report	—
11	SAMPLE / DATASET	Full sample plus chatbot-news-user subgroup	—
12	MODEL / TOOL / VERSION	Standalone AI chatbots	—
13	COMPARATOR	Search and social media	—
14	MAIN RESULT	4% full-sample AI click-through vs 19% search/17% social; ~42% among AI-news users	—
15	INFERENTIAL TARGET	Denominator-sensitive referral propensity	—
16	DOES NOT LICENSE	Contradiction between 4% and 42%, or observed click logs	—
17	VERIFICATION STATE	CONTENT VERIFIED / DENOMINATOR RECONCILED	state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · qualifiers: DENOMINATOR_RECONCILED · verified_by: UNKNOWN
18	LIMITATIONS	Self-report; different user-base sizes	—
19	CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES	Population denominator explains apparent discrepancy	—
20	GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE	27 markets / multilingual	—
21	DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER	AI users who click are relatively motivated by verification/source curiosity	—
22	R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS	D7, R-1, R-2	—
23	WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM?	Behavioural trace across markets	—
24	PUBLICATION STATUS	ELIGIBLE WITH DENOMINATOR VISIBLE	state: ELIGIBLE · qualifiers: DENOMINATOR_VISIBLE
25	RECORDED DATE	2026-09-25	—

Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: D7 (DOMAIN); R-1 (LENS); R-2 (LENS)

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Research-of-record provenance

Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 05e1f09855f761ba1b154e638ef48dfe32c876209ebf9e0cfb2e8dbce3bdd09e.

Frozen Drive-derived inputs

R07 — LD-10 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0 — LOCKED (v1.0) — Drive ID 1f9tgGnqv80_UyhW0kCgcnTgWNPlx-DYM; revision: NOT_EXPOSED_BY_DRIVE_TEXT_EXPORT; Drive modified ; block “ENTRY 19 — LD10-HQ-C19 ” SHA-256 fb3d53b006738c0de8ec0fdc7702c7d04fca3461d2ba802623341926082cf80e; SocioLens — Programme Status & Authority Register v0.6 status “CURRENT.”; frozen fixture fixtures/frozen/r07-ld10-claim-ledger-v1.0-canonical.

Builder decisions (not Drive data)

VERSION = v1.0 — basis: Claim version taken from the canonical ledger artifact version (R07 — LD-10 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0); Implementation Architecture Selection §5 logical_id/version convention.
CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: SocioLens — Programme Status & Authority Register v0.6 status for "R07 — LD-10 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0 — LOCKED": "CURRENT."
FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-LD10-REUTERS-DNR-2026-CHAPTER-EXEC-SUMMARY--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 19 — LD10-HQ-C19 cites "Reuters Institute DNR 2026 chapter + executive summary"; the frozen field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's ledger block (fixtures/frozen/r07-ld10-claim-ledger-v1.0-canonical); Drive-derived identity authority (Issue #53 Source inventory, factory-hq decision HQ-ESC-sociolens-ld10-t5-20261011T050405Z-01 ruling 3 inventory S13): R07 Batch 02 lines 159, 161, 174; ledger C19 fields 6/7/8.
SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-LD10-REUTERS-DNR-2026-CHAPTER-EXEC-SUMMARY--v1.0 — basis: Issue #5 proof rendering (Architecture Proof Protocol v0.1 AP-08 / Amendment v1.2 §6): explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion — the pinned field-6 Source record "Reuters Institute DNR 2026 chapter + executive summary"; Drive-derived identity authority (Issue #53 Source inventory, factory-hq decision HQ-ESC-sociolens-ld10-t5-20261011T050405Z-01 ruling 3 inventory S13): R07 Batch 02 lines 159, 161, 174; ledger C19 fields 6/7/8.