{"id":1536175,"date":"2025-05-15T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1536175"},"modified":"2025-05-15T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T13:45:00","slug":"a-third-of-americans-worry-about-manipulated-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/a-third-of-americans-worry-about-manipulated-news\/1536175\/","title":{"rendered":"A Third Of Americans Worry About Manipulated News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">A Third Of Americans Worry About Manipulated News<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><strong>Almost half <\/strong>of the people surveyed in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/topics\/760\/united-states\/\">United States<\/a>\u00a0as part of a Statista Consumer Insights survey\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/topics\/1536\/media-use\/\">actively try to keep up to date<\/a>\u00a0with world events and politics.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/34390\/survey-news-attitutes-gci\/\"> as Statista&#8217;s Katharina Buchholz reports,<\/a> about <strong>a third of survey participants also fear <\/strong>that news in the so-called mainstream media is being <strong>manipulated<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/images_40.jpg?itok=G-Bk8vWs\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Americans&#8217; trust in the media is therefore under pressure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/34390\/survey-news-attitutes-gci\/\" title=\"Infographic: A Third of Americans Worries About Manipulated News | Statista\"><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>You will find more infographics at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chartoftheday\/\">Statista<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The widespread use of AI to create images and text or to manipulate them has recently added another layer to the mistrust in news consumers already have.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Statista data shows that 28 percent of respondents in the U.S. want to know whether the news they consume was generated using artificial intelligence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The survey data also shows that <strong>around 42 percent are turning away from print media or their online presence, preferring to consume their news audiovisually.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Thu, 05\/15\/2025 &#8211; 05:45<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/personal-finance\/third-americans-worry-about-manipulated-news\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/personal-finance\/third-americans-worry-about-manipulated-news<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Third Of Americans Worry About Manipulated News Almost half of the people surveyed in the\u00a0United States\u00a0as part of a Statista Consumer Insights survey\u00a0actively try&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1536176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1536175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1536176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}