When journalists confirm that a claim is true, most people tend to trust them. However, when those same journalists correct a false claim, they face a much harder battle to earn the trust of their audience. This was the key finding from a recent study published in Communication Research, which examined how people perceive fact-checks and the journalists who provide them. Public confidence in the media has been declining for decades, and this trend has accelerated in recent years. This widespread distrust is partially driven by concerns that journalistic coverage is biased, sensationalized, and…