Opinion Opinion Advocates for ideas and draws conclusions based on the author/producer’s interpretation of facts and data. Should This Article Be Trusted? Illustration by Carlos PX/Visuals/Unsplash Where does our news come from? What’s the difference between “fact” and “opinion” in news reporting? Should this article be trusted? After the past four dizzying years—during which the president has consistently vilified the press and sought to undermine public trust in journalism—answers to these fundamental questions are evidently far from elementary for many Americans. A December 2020 Pew Research study found that many Americans have difficulty distinguishing between news sources that do their own reporting and those that simply circulate already existing stories. Fewer than 4-in-10 survey respondents knew whether Google News, Apple News, or