With the 2024 presidential election a year away, new research shows that Americans are watching or reading the news less closely than they were just a few years earlier. According to a new Pew Research Center analysis, since 2016, there has been a precipitous decline in adults following the news.

In 2016, 51% of adults said they followed the news “all or most of the time.” The latest numbers from 2022 show that number has dropped to 38%.

The decline in viewership comes as the public faces high levels of news fatigue and questions whether the media is accurately and fairly reporting the news. This distrust has been driven by political division in recent years.