Media vs Public Disconnect

Are the headlines more worried about AI than the people posting about it? We score news coverage and social posts separately, using the same formula, then compare them. Neither group represents everyone.

Media

50.7

Public

51.5

Gap

-0.8

Media series: collected news articles. Public series: collected social posts and discussions. Only timestamps with both samples are shown. These are different populations measured by the same formula, not a like-for-like sample of one population. Both axes are fixed to 0–100.

Current regime: aligned

Media and public sentiment are currently aligned. The gap carries little information in this regime.

Different source populations, not a representative public-opinion poll. Small social samples are pulled toward neutral; a visible gap alone does not establish a meaningful difference.