Richard Fletcher

Competition regulator launches formal investigation into the veterinary market after finding ‘multiple issues’ in sector

Research shows the growth of online information has led to a decline in audience trust in mainstream news. However, how this lowered trust in the news affects different audiences' attitudes and news consumption behaviour is less understood. Our thematic analysis of 40 semi-structured interviews with Australian heavy and non-news users of mainstream news shows that responses vary with respect to the effort taken to verify dubious news. Among heavy news users, responses include ‘pragmatic scepticism', ‘selective trust' and ‘generalised cynicism' which tend to drive verification and fact-checking behaviours. These findings suggest that mistrust in mainstream news is not necessarily a bad thing, as it can lead to greater critical involvement with news and information. However, many non-news users depicted ‘critically conscious' or ‘cynically disengaged' attitudes towards news. A lack of trust can drive a low-effort response, particularly among non-news consumers, creating a downward spiral of disengagement.

Indebted water company says Ofwat’s refusal to allow it to increase bills makes the proposed turnaround plan ‘uninvestible’

On Thursday, 7 March 2024, the Tax Subcommittee of the House Committee on Ways and Means held a hearing on the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) inclusive framework's Pillar One project. The hearing marked Congress' first public inquiry dedicated solely to Pillar One since the release of the draft Multilateral Convention to Implement Amount A of Pillar One (MLC) and the final Amount B report . The same Subcommittee examined both Pillar One and Pillar Two in a July 2023 hearing that featured then-Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Tax Affairs Michael Plowgian.

The former shareholder in the utility has been criticised by politicians for loading it with debt during its ownership between 2006 and 2017

Publisher of The Times and The Sunday Times reports a 58,000 increase in digital-only subscribers to 558,000

The tycoon’s Invoke Capital investment fund no longer has the share capital needed to appoint a director

Disruption to oil supplies could push prices higher if the situation escalates

FTSE 100 miner confirms “unsolicited, non-binding and highly conditional combination proposal from BHP”

In this factsheet we test how well two of the most widely used generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots – ChatGPT and Bard (now called Gemini) 1 – provide the latest news to users who ask for the top five news headlines from specific outlets. We prompted each chatbot to provide headlines from the most widely used online news sources across ten countries and analysed the outputs to provide descriptive statistics on how they responded. For reasons explained below, the more detailed part of the analysis is focused on ChatGPT outputs from seven of the ten countries covered.