narrative-media-and-trust

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Familiarity Made the Trust Gap. Now the Interface Has to Close It.

Gen Z did not reject phones. They complained about interfaces that never learn how users disagree. Reuters 2026 finds AI chatbot news trust at 44% among users, while overall news trust falls to 37%. My read: usage rises faster than trust because product teams assumed trust would follow capability.…