According to an intensive research project coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), BBC, and multiple nationwide broadcasting companies, AI systems are not anywhere close to being an authoritative or accurate source of news information- regardless of territory or nationality. This project involved over 23 countries from across the globe, and involved professional journalists from specific countries evaluating the accuracy and sourcing criteria used by over 3000 prompts from multiple AI systems. Their research showed that despite the growing use of AI for news consumption, these systems explicitly distort facts and continue to hallucinate sources when summarizing outputs. 45% of all answers had at least one major issue, and 20% contained major inaccuracies including hallucinated details. The study identifies Google’s Gemini as the worst performing system, with inaccurate summaries amounting to 76% of total output.