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In today’s email:
- Featured story: New AI chatbot compiles news only from sources rated as reliable
- In other news: U.K. proposes plan to boost established media on YouTube and TikTok
- Looking ahead: The Daily Wire seeks $100 million from investors
- Chart of the week: How Americans discuss news with others
🔥 Featured story
NewsGuard, a technology startup, is launching an AI chatbot that aggregates news using information only from sources the company has rated as reliable. The chatbot cites its sources with prominent links and will share revenue with those publishers, NewsGuard says.
About one-in-ten U.S. adults said in a 2025 Pew Research Center survey that they get news often (2%) or sometimes (7%) from AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Gemini, while 16% rarely do this. Among those who get news from chatbots, just 24% say they find it easy to determine what is true and what is not, and about half say they at least sometimes come across news via chatbots that they think is inaccurate.
A 2026 Center survey asked Americans who don’t use AI chatbots in general their reasons for not using them. About three-quarters of people in this group say a lack of trust that the information will be accurate is a major (45%) or minor (30%) reason they don’t use chatbots.
📌 In other news
- U.K. proposal would give established media brands more prominence on YouTube, TikTok
- DOJ reportedly sought to force national security journalists to tesify, but withdrew subpoenas
- How officials in Mexico are confronting journalists using legal claims
- ABC urges viewers to contact FCC about investigation into The View
- New CBS News ombudsman has avoided public statements about coverage
- Czech public broadcasters protest funding changes planned by government
- Analysis finds Washington Post opinion section has supported data centers without disclosing Bezos’ business interests
- The Atlantic is expanding its video podcast offerings
📅 Looking ahead
The Daily Wire, a media organization co-founded by conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, is looking to raise at least $100 million from outside investors and eyeing an initial public offering. The company’s paid subscriptions – its main source of revenue – dropped by about a third in 2025, and its advertising revenue has declined each year since 2022. To try and win back subscribers, The Daily Wire is planning to expand its news coverage, hire new talent and grow its consumer products division.
Four-in-ten U.S. adults have heard of The Daily Wire and 6% regularly get news there, according to a March 2025 Center survey. Republicans and Republican-leaning independents are more likely than Democrats and Democratic leaners to say they regularly get news from The Daily Wire (12% vs. 2%) and trust it as a source of news (14% vs. 3%).
📊 Chart of the week
This week’s chart comes from our 2026 report on Americans’ relationship with the news, and sheds light on how they discuss the news with other people.
Roughly three-quarters of Americans say they discuss the news with others at least sometimes. Even as getting news online becomes the norm, by far the most common way people discuss the news is through in-person conversations.
👋 That’s all for this week.
The Briefing is compiled by Pew Research Center staff, including Kirsten Eddy, Joanne Haner and Sawyer Reed. It is edited by Michael Lipka and copy edited by Anna Jackson.
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