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Americans face a variety of challenges as they try to stay informed on news, including concerns about inaccurate news , stark political divides in news sources and the rise of artificial intelligence .

Against this backdrop, we asked Americans to describe in their own words what they think it means to be a “good news consumer.” The wide range of answers we received shows that Americans have many different ways of navigating the modern information landscape.

These findings, which are part of a Pew Research Center survey from the…