Episode 4: Believe it When I See It

Young people spend an average of seven hours a day consuming media, and over half get their news from social platforms. So it's easy to assume we're all swimming in political content. But almost no one I talked to trusted what they were seeing.It wasn't that people trusted one outlet over another—they didn't trust any of them. What felt credible was whatever cut out the middleman: raw footage, personal relationships, influencers who seemed to have no agenda. The closer to the source, the easier to believe.But here's the thing: young people aren't just passively tuning out. They're actively pressing "not interested," curating their feeds, and making deliberate choices to keep politics out of their lives. Disengagement isn't laziness. It takes effort.