{"id":206835,"date":"2026-04-28T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/ai-decides-what-we-see-online-its-time-digital-platforms-tell-us-exactly-how-they-do-it\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T16:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:50:18","slug":"ai-decides-what-we-see-online-its-time-digital-platforms-tell-us-exactly-how-they-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/ai-decides-what-we-see-online-its-time-digital-platforms-tell-us-exactly-how-they-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"AI decides what we see online. It\u2019s time digital platforms tell us exactly how they do it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/ai-decides-what-we-see-online-its-time-digital-platforms-tell-us-exactly-how-they-do-it-281327\">AI decides what we see online. It\u2019s time digital platforms tell us exactly how they do it<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/ai-decides-what-we-see-online-its-time-digital-platforms-tell-us-exactly-how-they-do-it-281327\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/ai-decides-what-we-see-online-its-time-digital-platforms-tell-us-exactly-how-they-do-it-281327<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-28 16:09:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"theconversation.com\">theconversation.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Information Overload and Distrust<\/strong>: Australians are increasingly turning to social media and AI for news due to information overload and growing distrust in traditional news.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Algorithmic Intransparency<\/strong>: Algorithms on social media and AI platforms make decisions opaquely, without regard for accuracy or evidence-based reporting.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Declining Journalism<\/strong>: The decline of local journalism and mainstream news outlets due to decreased traffic from \u201czero-click\u201d AI search results threatens the news ecosystem.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Misinformation and Low Verification Confidence<\/strong>: Misinformation flourishes due to insufficient verified evidence; only a minority of Australians feel confident in their ability to verify online information.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Transparency and Regulation Needed<\/strong>: Key recommendations include greater transparency from tech platforms, fair rules for AI use, media and AI literacy education, sustainable journalism funding, and training for influencers to ensure a quality news ecosystem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI decides what we see online. It\u2019s time digital platforms tell us exactly how they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/732383\/original\/file-20260427-71-hmouq4.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.0&rect=0%2C240%2C3840%2C1920&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206837,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206835\/revisions\/206837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}