Friday, June 19, 2026

Global trust in news falls to record lows as audiences desert legacy media

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Trust in news has fallen to its lowest levels since Reuter’s records began in 2015, according to the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2026.

37% of respondents said they trust news most of the time, with just 25% in the US. For the first time, social media and video networks have overtaken television and news websites as the world’s most widely used source of news, reaching 54% of respondents and serving as the main source for half of all under-25s.



The report complained that populist politicians can now bypass traditional journalism for ‘friendly partisan media’ and online ‘personalities’ it accused of spreading ‘false narratives or worse’.

In Australia, the Labor government has committed $180 million to prop up the press with the largest taxpayer subsidy of journalism in decades. Read more at Reuters Institute, BBC, Streamline Feed and The Online Citizen.

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4 COMMENTS

  1. The globalists politicians propaganda machine has broken down because there are some lies and acts of corruption, that are to conspicuous to be hidden. Too stupid and dishonest, to understand this of course.

  2. And here’s the reason why;
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAGE4jFtxEQ
    https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-06-30-israel-zionists-control-us-government-espionage.html
    https://jewtruth.com/video/whatthemediawonttellyouaboutisrael/#122
    REMEMBER- THE FBI IS NOW IN NEW ZEALAND, SHARING PUBLIC OPINIONS THAT HAVE BEEN DEEMED TO BE ANTI-ISRAEL, ANT-J3W, AND ANTI-SEMITIC!. IT IS CLEARLY A VIOLATION OF NEW ZEALAND SOVEREIGNTY, BUT DONE AT THE URGING OF THE QUIET ZIONISTS IN PARLIAMENT, NGO’s AND THE INTERNATIONAL J3WI$H BANKSTERS!
    https://x.com/thematrixb0t/status/2062882195711365538
    https://rumble.com/v76gr8i-israeli-spyware-firm-builds-jewish-secret-police-to-arrest-floridians-for-w.html?e9s=src_v1_s%2Csrc_v1_s_o&sci=04196d17-25e2-445f-99b8-3eca29b96522

  3. The lamestream media killed themselves a long time ago by lying to their audience, no amount of govt. or corporate intervention will ever save them, it’s too late even under the coming globalist nightmare they will never be trusted again. They just need to lay down and shut up.

  4. Good. People are becoming more discerning about their information sources.

    Dying are the day Boomer race to the six o’clock establishment propagander and indoctrination. Gen X hate anyone infringing their freedom. Millennials are woke and lost, forget about them. But Gen Z are turning out to be more conservative than Boomers…

    Is this is why the political establishment want to ban under 16 from the internet. It won’t work. Which is why its internet ID for over 16’s.

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