news policy

A new University of Sydney analysis warns that the way AI assistants summarize the news could be quietly reshaping what Australians — and, by extension, citizens elsewhere — see as the day’s important stories, elevating global outlets while erasing local reporters, regional context, and the...

A University of Sydney audit has found that Microsoft’s Copilot routinely sidelines Australian journalism in its AI‑generated news summaries, favouring US and European outlets, erasing bylines and flattening local context — a pattern that threatens referral traffic, newsroom revenue, and...