In the modern social sciences, the concept of trust is considered an essential element of the socio-cultural potential of each given society. The credibility (trustworthiness) of the media is a set of ideas and attitudes of the audience that allow government institutions to increase or maintain their social resources, at the time of the rise of information through the Internet is rising in Russia, and the overall propensity to trust by the Russian society is falling. Overall trust in general and trust in mass media, in particular, are of interest ...