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54%= Share of people globally using social media and video networks for news (56% if AI chatbots are included)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trust in news has fallen in 29 of our 48 markets this year, resulting in a drop overall to the lowest level we have recorded since we started to measure trust in 2015 (37%). Trust fell by 5pp or more in 19 markets. In the United States, only a quarter (25%) of people now say they trust the news most of the time. Some of this worldwide drop in trust reflects wider anxieties beyond the news industry \u2013 trust in institutions and leaders is widely declining, and journalism is also often under direct attack from high-profile politicians. Despite these pressures, trust in the most widely used individual news brands is holding up better than trust in news overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reductions in trust are also related to changes in the news consumption mix. Social media and video networks have long been trusted less than traditional news media, so trust overall is prone to go down as more people\u2019s consumption tends towards using social media and video networks (and AI chatbots) for news at the expense of legacy sources. We can probably expect trust in news overall to fall further in future, but trust for many established news providers appears to be defying this trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Concerns about fake news are also up, by 4pp to 62% on average, with jumps of more than 5pp in 11 markets. Only in one market (Brazil) did misinformation concerns decrease (-3 pp). As people\u2019s use of third-party platforms goes up so do worries about misinformation, but convenience appears to trump concern.
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