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  "id": "gallup-trust-in-media-28-percent-2025",
  "slug": "gallup-trust-in-media-28-percent-2025",
  "url": "https://groundedkit.com/claims/gallup-trust-in-media-28-percent-2025/",
  "api_url": "https://groundedkit.com/api/claims/gallup-trust-in-media-28-percent-2025.json",
  "claim": "Only 28% of Americans trust the mass media a great deal or a fair amount",
  "commonly_cited_as": "\"Trust in media is at a record low of 28%\"",
  "verdict": "verified",
  "verdict_definition": "Primary source found; it says the same thing, the scope matches, and it is reasonably current.",
  "confidence": "high",
  "rating": {
    "value": 5,
    "best": 5,
    "worst": 1
  },
  "origin": {
    "publisher": "Gallup",
    "title": "Trust in Media at New Low of 28% in U.S. (Oct. 2025)",
    "year": "2025"
  },
  "quote": "The latest 28% confidence reading, from a Sept. 2-16 poll, marks the first time the measure has fallen below 30%. ... Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted by ReconMR Sept. 2-16, 2025, with a random sample of 1,000 adults",
  "method": "Random-digit-dial telephone survey of 1,000 US adults, Sept. 2–16, 2025 (Gallup Poll Social Series).",
  "drift": [
    "Wording: the question is trust in newspapers, TV and radio 'to report the news fully, accurately and fairly'"
  ],
  "interest": "n/a (independent polling firm; the Social Series is self-funded).",
  "safe_rephrasing": "In Gallup's September 2025 poll, 28% of US adults said they trust the mass media a great deal or a fair amount, the first reading below 30%.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Gallup — Trust in Media at New Low (2025)",
      "url": "https://news.gallup.com/poll/695762/trust-media-new-low.aspx",
      "primary": true
    }
  ],
  "kind": "stat_check",
  "as_of": "Telephone poll, Sept. 2–16, 2025",
  "last_checked": "2026-10-16",
  "stale": false,
  "date_reviewed": "2026-10-16",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}