5. A closer look at the topics of news influencers’ posts
Over three weeks studied, a majority of posts on current events or civic issues (55%) by news influencers were about government, politics or the election.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
While trust in government has been low for decades, the current measure is one of the lowest in the nearly seven decades since the question was first asked by the National Election Study, and it is lower than it was last year (22%).