"The Internews Trust Framework offers a perspective to gauge the presence of trust and,importantly, to understand why certain sources of information might be more, or lesstrusted. This framework consists of four key elements of trust, each comprising threecomponents. This enables us to analyze, monitor, plan, and assess with the goal offostering, enhancing, or nurturing trust. Crucially, this framework operates on the principle that the goal of informationproviders is not blind trust. High-quality information benefits from being subject toconstructive scrutiny, and information providers should be open to questions and begenuinely accountable to their audiences." (Page 2)