Axios -  For the third year in a row, the share of Americans who say they have a great deal or a fair amount of trust in mass media has fallen to a record low, according to a recent Gallup survey.

• Only 28% say they have a great deal or a fair amount of trust in the mass media, down from 68% in 1972.

🗳️ Trump's 2016 election drove a historically wide gap between Democrats' and Republicans' trust in mass media.

• That gap has narrowed, as Americans across the spectrum now report record-low trust.

🧒 A steep fall in trust among partisans and younger people has driven most of the overall decline.

• In the past three years, trust in mass media has fallen by 19 percentage points among Democrats and 6 among Republicans.
• The share of Republicans who say they have "no trust at all" in the media has also risen sharply over the past few years, from less than 30% in 2015 to 62% in 2025.

🗞️ While trust in most civic institutions has fallen over the past two decades, media remains the least-trusted institution measured by Gallup. Go deeper