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The crossover is narrow and the direction is not. What matters for a publisher is not that platforms won, but that the fastest-growing channel is one that answers the question instead of sending the reader to the answer.
The work a bilingual newsroom does twice is the work a model can help with. The work that decides whether a story is true is unchanged, and a more capable model makes the second problem harder rather than easier.
The Reuters Institute's 2026 Digital News Report puts social and video platforms at 54% as a news source, ahead of TV at 52% and news apps and sites at 51%. The gap is small. The direction, and what it means for who controls distribution, is not.