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AI chatbots may be better than search engines in guarding against foreign propaganda

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AI chatbots may be better than search engines in guarding against foreign propaganda

NPR · Aug 30, 2026, 7:00 AM UTC

In a test, popular AI chatbots mostly debunked falsehoods spread by other countries and avoided uncritically spreading falsehoods better than search engines. AI summaries above search results fared worse.