A declaration increasingly heard, displayed and printed as an introduction to text, images and video because in the brave new world of AI, it is sometimes impossible to determine what is real and what is fake. "This is not AI" is becoming more common and very alarming. It means that "objective truth" cannot be gleaned by reading anything but trusted sources.
In 2025, YouGov rated more than 50 news sources for trustworthiness, and the top 25 follow in order of trust:
Trusted News Sources in 2025
1. The Weather Channel
2. BBC
3. PBS
4. The Wall Street Journal
5. Forbes
6. ABC
7. Reuters
8. The Associated Press
9. CBS
10. TIME Magazine
11. ESPN
12. NBC
13. The New York Times
14. The Washington Post
15. USA Today
16. NPR
17. The Financial Times
18. The Economist
19. Business Insider
20. Newsweek
21. The Guardian
22. The Atlantic
23. Bloomberg
24. The New Yorker
25. The Los Angeles Times