“…In general, local health-care workers and agencies, personal health professionals, friends, neighbors, and relatives, local self-help and community groups, and scientists are the more trusted sources; also in general, local elected authorities and politicians, government officials, industry, and media are relatively less trusted sources. 24,26,30,33,42,45,47,[49][50][51][52][53] It is important to note that there may be different levels of trust in different agencies of the government, with higher trust in those arms of the government that are perceived as nonbiased. 30,50 Within different media sources, trust varies between traditional and digital/social media sources, with trust in traditional media (eg, television news) relatively higher than social media (eg, Twitter).…”