Research on social media news trust and news verification awareness This study aims to design a tool for measuring social media users' levels of social media news trust and news verification awareness, to investigate if there is a significant difference between the trust towards news produced by professional journalists and individuals' news production/shares, and to examine whether social media users check the trueness of social media news before they share them. To that end, a survey was conducted with the participation of 763 university students and following the analysis of the results, a 3-factor structure as "verification", "trust on professional social media shares" and "individual social media shares" was proven to be a valid and reliable scale for university students. Also, it has been observed that the trust of participants towards professional channels is higher than the individual shares and the youth, who use social media to get news have higher levels of news verification awareness.