Generative AI puts trust in the news media to the test

 

The spread of fake news and disinformation has steadily risen in past years, with audiences increasingly getting their news online, where false information – sometimes generated by AI – spreads faster, threatening audiences’ trust in media.

In this series of infographics, Euractiv takes a deeper dive into the trends playing out across Europe’s media landscape.

AI and mistrust in media

The trend of consumers trusting the media less and less has been observed for a while, resulting in some turning to social media to get their news instead. Both this year and last year, in the US, trust in media hit all-time lows. This pattern is the same in the EU, as laid out in the graph below. Meanwhile, TikTok, for example, is popular among the younger generation as an alternative to more traditional news sources. (...)