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A #study by Canadian #researchers found that #AI models, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok, rarely credit #newssources in their responses. While enabling web search improved the models’ ability to cover news, attribution rates remained low, with ChatGPT being the worst offender. https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/chatgpt-claude-gemini-and-grok-are-all-bad-at-crediting-news-outlets-but-chatgpt-is-the-worst-at-least-in-this-study/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

Fewer Americans follow the news closely now than in 2016 – Pew Research Center

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December 3, 2025

Americans are following the news less closely than they used to

By Naomi Forman-Katz

The share of Americans who say they follow the news all or most of the time has decreased since 2016, according to nearly a decade’s worth of Pew Research Center surveys. This shift comes amid changes in the platforms people use for news and declining trust in news organizations. How we did this…

As of August 2025, 36% of U.S. adults say they follow the news all or most of the time. That is down from 51% in 2016, the first time we asked this question.

In turn, growing shares of Americans say they follow the news less closely:

• 38% now say they follow it some of the time, up from 31% in 2016.
• 18% say they follow it only now and then, compared with 12% in 2016.

Meanwhile, the share who say they hardly ever follow the news has been relatively stable (7% in 2025, 5% in 2016).

People in every age group are less likely now than in 2016 to say they follow the news all or most of the time. But older Americans remain more likely than younger adults to do so. 

For example, 62% of adults 65 and older now say they follow the news all or most of the time. That’s down 13 percentage points since 2016.

The decline is similar – 12 points – among adults under 30. However, this age group followed the news much less closely to begin with: 15% now say they follow the news all or most of the time, down from 27% in 2016.

This decline in Americans’ attention to the news over the years has also occurred across other demographic groups, including education, gender, race, ethnicity and political party. But the drop has been steeper for some groups than others.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Fewer Americans follow the news closely now than in 2016 | Pew Research Center

#AgeGroups #Americans #August2025 #LessNews #News #NewsSources #Newspapers #Pew #PewResearchCenter #Research

Fewer Americans follow the news closely now than in 2016 – Pew Research Center

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December 3, 2025

Americans are following the news less closely than they used to

By Naomi Forman-Katz

The share of Americans who say they follow the news all or most of the time has decreased since 2016, according to nearly a decade’s worth of Pew Research Center surveys. This shift comes amid changes in the platforms people use for news and declining trust in news organizations. How we did this…

As of August 2025, 36% of U.S. adults say they follow the news all or most of the time. That is down from 51% in 2016, the first time we asked this question.

In turn, growing shares of Americans say they follow the news less closely:

• 38% now say they follow it some of the time, up from 31% in 2016.
• 18% say they follow it only now and then, compared with 12% in 2016.

Meanwhile, the share who say they hardly ever follow the news has been relatively stable (7% in 2025, 5% in 2016).

People in every age group are less likely now than in 2016 to say they follow the news all or most of the time. But older Americans remain more likely than younger adults to do so. 

For example, 62% of adults 65 and older now say they follow the news all or most of the time. That’s down 13 percentage points since 2016.

The decline is similar – 12 points – among adults under 30. However, this age group followed the news much less closely to begin with: 15% now say they follow the news all or most of the time, down from 27% in 2016.

This decline in Americans’ attention to the news over the years has also occurred across other demographic groups, including education, gender, race, ethnicity and political party. But the drop has been steeper for some groups than others.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Fewer Americans follow the news closely now than in 2016 | Pew Research Center

#AgeGroups #Americans #August2025 #LessNews #News #NewsSources #Newspapers #Pew #PewResearchCenter #Research

Fewer Americans follow the news closely now than in 2016 – Pew Research Center

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December 3, 2025

Americans are following the news less closely than they used to

By Naomi Forman-Katz

The share of Americans who say they follow the news all or most of the time has decreased since 2016, according to nearly a decade’s worth of Pew Research Center surveys. This shift comes amid changes in the platforms people use for news and declining trust in news organizations. How we did this…

As of August 2025, 36% of U.S. adults say they follow the news all or most of the time. That is down from 51% in 2016, the first time we asked this question.

In turn, growing shares of Americans say they follow the news less closely:

• 38% now say they follow it some of the time, up from 31% in 2016.
• 18% say they follow it only now and then, compared with 12% in 2016.

Meanwhile, the share who say they hardly ever follow the news has been relatively stable (7% in 2025, 5% in 2016).

People in every age group are less likely now than in 2016 to say they follow the news all or most of the time. But older Americans remain more likely than younger adults to do so. 

For example, 62% of adults 65 and older now say they follow the news all or most of the time. That’s down 13 percentage points since 2016.

The decline is similar – 12 points – among adults under 30. However, this age group followed the news much less closely to begin with: 15% now say they follow the news all or most of the time, down from 27% in 2016.

This decline in Americans’ attention to the news over the years has also occurred across other demographic groups, including education, gender, race, ethnicity and political party. But the drop has been steeper for some groups than others.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Fewer Americans follow the news closely now than in 2016 | Pew Research Center

#AgeGroups #Americans #August2025 #LessNews #News #NewsSources #Newspapers #Pew #PewResearchCenter #Research

Fewer Americans follow the news closely now than in 2016 – Pew Research Center

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December 3, 2025

Americans are following the news less closely than they used to

By Naomi Forman-Katz

The share of Americans who say they follow the news all or most of the time has decreased since 2016, according to nearly a decade’s worth of Pew Research Center surveys. This shift comes amid changes in the platforms people use for news and declining trust in news organizations. How we did this…

As of August 2025, 36% of U.S. adults say they follow the news all or most of the time. That is down from 51% in 2016, the first time we asked this question.

In turn, growing shares of Americans say they follow the news less closely:

• 38% now say they follow it some of the time, up from 31% in 2016.
• 18% say they follow it only now and then, compared with 12% in 2016.

Meanwhile, the share who say they hardly ever follow the news has been relatively stable (7% in 2025, 5% in 2016).

People in every age group are less likely now than in 2016 to say they follow the news all or most of the time. But older Americans remain more likely than younger adults to do so. 

For example, 62% of adults 65 and older now say they follow the news all or most of the time. That’s down 13 percentage points since 2016.

The decline is similar – 12 points – among adults under 30. However, this age group followed the news much less closely to begin with: 15% now say they follow the news all or most of the time, down from 27% in 2016.

This decline in Americans’ attention to the news over the years has also occurred across other demographic groups, including education, gender, race, ethnicity and political party. But the drop has been steeper for some groups than others.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Fewer Americans follow the news closely now than in 2016 | Pew Research Center

#AgeGroups #Americans #August2025 #LessNews #News #NewsSources #Newspapers #Pew #PewResearchCenter #Research

Fewer Americans follow the news closely now than in 2016 – Pew Research Center

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December 3, 2025

Americans are following the news less closely than they used to

By Naomi Forman-Katz

The share of Americans who say they follow the news all or most of the time has decreased since 2016, according to nearly a decade’s worth of Pew Research Center surveys. This shift comes amid changes in the platforms people use for news and declining trust in news organizations. How we did this…

As of August 2025, 36% of U.S. adults say they follow the news all or most of the time. That is down from 51% in 2016, the first time we asked this question.

In turn, growing shares of Americans say they follow the news less closely:

• 38% now say they follow it some of the time, up from 31% in 2016.
• 18% say they follow it only now and then, compared with 12% in 2016.

Meanwhile, the share who say they hardly ever follow the news has been relatively stable (7% in 2025, 5% in 2016).

People in every age group are less likely now than in 2016 to say they follow the news all or most of the time. But older Americans remain more likely than younger adults to do so. 

For example, 62% of adults 65 and older now say they follow the news all or most of the time. That’s down 13 percentage points since 2016.

The decline is similar – 12 points – among adults under 30. However, this age group followed the news much less closely to begin with: 15% now say they follow the news all or most of the time, down from 27% in 2016.

This decline in Americans’ attention to the news over the years has also occurred across other demographic groups, including education, gender, race, ethnicity and political party. But the drop has been steeper for some groups than others.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Fewer Americans follow the news closely now than in 2016 | Pew Research Center

#AgeGroups #Americans #August2025 #LessNews #News #NewsSources #Newspapers #Pew #PewResearchCenter #Research

in an article about maga wanting to defund PBS because the truth hurts them I found an interesting statistic "According to a 2024 poll by YouGov, PBS was Americans’ third-most trusted news source after The Weather Channel and the BBC."
It's very telling that the most trusted news source in the states is the British Broadcasting Company, even people from here don't trust US news organizations to be honest.
#FundPBS #PBS #BBC #TheWeatherChannel #Journalism #NewsSources #MediaBias

This is not a partisan statement, but rather a reminder to use #adblockers and avoid as much of the programming as you can. Get your #news from actual #newssources and be highly critical of those.

https://www.axios.com/2024/08/13/harris-campaign-google-poltical-ads-news-publishers

#Journalists forced to leave #HongKong have set up numerous online platforms from abroad to #document the developments in the city. But they face a shortage of #resources , as well as #LimitedAccess to #NewsSources .

https://amp.dw.com/en/hong-kong-exiles-try-to-preserve-culture-and-press-freedom/a-65008999

#Journalism #AsianMastodon #HKNews #FreedomOfThePress #PressFreedom #diaspora

i came back to the world of that poisonous bird because a very critical election process has started in my country and unfortunately there are no local news sources to follow the process on the #mastodon yet... #turkishelections #newssources #politics #turkiye #democracy #etc

Do you like to read your news when you login to your favorite social media tool? I do as well. Come along and I’ll share a few of my favorite news focused Mastodon instance accounts. There’s a Google Sheets document you may want to copy or add to, as well. https://www.mguhlin.org/2022/11/curated-newssources-in-fediverse-via.html #TwitterMigration #News #NewsSources

Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: Curated #NewsSources in the #Fediverse via #Mastodon

Do you like to read your news when you login to your favorite social media tool? I do as well. Come along and I'll share a few of my favorite news focused Mastodon instance accounts. https://www.mguhlin.org/2022/11/curated-newssources-in-fediverse-via.html

Curated #NewsSources in the #Fediverse via #Mastodon https://ift.tt/L0lzkpD #mguhlin #Reflections

@TheGibson Among the sources I follow with some regularity:

• National broadcasters: BBC, CBC, ABC (Aust.), DW, NPR, PBS, Aljazeera, PBS News Hour,

• Business sources tend to be fairly complete and dispassionate, if strongly pro-establishment: Financial Times & The Economist. Post-Murdoch WSJ far less so.

• News wires. Solidly centrist. Reuters, AP, UPI, AFP

• Left-ish: The Guardian, Mother Jones. ProPublica, Democracy Now.

• Major Dailies: New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Sydney Morning Herald.

Other city papers are largely only useful for local news.

• Commercial TV broadcasters. CBS strikes me as most reliable. NBC / ABC after. I find CNN fairly low-quality.

Local TV news is almost totally worthless.

• South China Morning Post (SCMP)

I'll occasionally take a peek at the right-wing rags just to see what bias/agenda they're spewing: Fox, WSJ, Breitbart, Sinclair, OANN, RT

I avoid the LW agitprop rags: RawStory, DailyKos, Wonkette, etc.

Keyword search on Twitter (via Nitter) can be useful, though it's very noisy.

For checking on sources / bias: Ad Fontes Media Bias, Media Bias Fact Check, Snopes, and the Wikipedia Reliable Sources pages are all quite useful.

#News #NewsSources