MC Library Research Guides: 2024 Elections: Choose Your News & AI

Quality News Sources

Newspapers and Magazines from MCPL
Montgomery County Public Libraries offer a wide variety of quality news sources through their website.
AP Fact Check
Verify the latest news with AP Fact Check. AP fact checkers combat misinformation by debunking false and misleading claims.

ProQuest Newspapers This link opens in a new window
A full-text, cross-searchable database of the newspaper collections of the Baltimore Sun, Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. See also: Historical New York Times, Historical Washington Post, and Historical Wall Street Journal.
Interactive Media Bias Chart This link opens in a new window
Advanced news source curation resource for educational institutions. It contains dynamic reliability and bias data on over 1700 news and “news-like” sources. Ratings are established by professional media analysts with diverse political perspectives. The IMBC Campus Pro Portal also includes media literacy content analysis training materials.
Flipster This link opens in a new window
Online access to popular magazines, including news magazines like Time, The New Yorker, and Nation. To download issues to your iOS or Android device, access Flipster via your mobile browser and then choose "Open in App" from the Options menu. Issues can be downloaded directly from the app by choosing "MONTGOMERY COLLEGE ROCKVILLE LIBRARY" through the "Find My Library" search tool.

Artificial Intelligence and the 2024 Election

About 4 in 10 Americans Don't Trust Information about the Election that Comes From ChatGPT

% of U.S. adults who say they have ___ trust in the information that comes from ChatGPT about the 2024 U.S. presidential election

Note: Those who did not give an answer are not shown.

Show/Hide Poll Text

Source: “About 4 in 10 Americans don’t trust information about the election that comes from ChatGPT.” Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C. (March 25, 2024) https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/03/26/americans-use-of-chatgpt-is-ticking-up-but-few-trust-its-election-information/sr_24-03-26_chat-bot_4-png/.

Risk in Focus: Generative A.I. and the 2024 Election Cycle
From the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Americans’ use of ChatGPT is ticking up, but few trust its election information
From Pew Research Center, published March 26, 2024.
Chatbots' Inaccurate, Misleading Responses about U.S. Elections Threaten to Keep Voters from Polls
From AP News, updated February 27, 2024.

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2024 Elections: Choose Your News & AI