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- The relationship between general news habits and trust in the news
- The meaning of trust in news
- A new understanding: What makes people trust and rely on news
- About the study
- How people decide what news to trust on digital platforms and social media
- How trust can be broken, and the decline of confidence in the press
- Download the report or topline results
- Audiences value trust components differently depending on the news source and topic
- How trust differs across generation, socioeconomics, race and ethnicity, and gender
- Why trust matters
- Appendix A: Tabulations of trust components by topic and source
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