NiemanLabs: “On Wednesday, The Economist launched its own ChatGPT app — the first of its kind by a major consumer news publication. “The Economist – Graphs” runs natively inside ChatGPT and allows users to interact with the publication’s data visualizations. At launch, the app is focused solely on U.S. polling data. After installing the app, ChatGPT users can use it to ask questions about The Economist’s ongoing Donald Trump approval rating tracker, which offers a variety of charts and data points broken down by state, demographic, and voting issue. Through the app, The Economist aims to reach ChatGPT’s more than 900 million weekly active users where they are…The Economist hopes the app will build brand awareness among younger audiences. In general, ChatGPT refers very little traffic to news publishers’ sites. Rather than chasing clickthroughs, Muncke describes the launch as a fact-finding mission of sorts for The Economist to learn more about ChatGPT users and, more generally, the emerging audience turning to chatbots for news.