Many more Americans trust news on the internet than did so in 1998, when only a small fraction of Americans got their news this way. Currently, 40% of Americans say they trust online news, up from 25% in 1998, the last time Gallup measured opinions on the subject. Since 1998, Americans’ use of the internet as a news source has grown more than five times compared with what it was. CONT.
Megan Brenan, Gallup