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[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You're the one claiming that this entity is so high in the Trust Hierachy that they they should be treated as Trust Overseers of the World's newsmedia, which is quite a gigantic claim.

I'm just doing a pretty standard Trust Requirements Evaluation as it would be done, for example, in IT Security, which yields the pretty obvious result that "tall claims require proportionatelly ironclad evidence from multiple trusted sources" and pointing out the gain that bad actors could get in setting up such a "trust gatekeeper" with only fancy web frontends, astroturfers and useful idiots as "evidence" of them deserving the guardianship of the Trust in the World's newsmedia.

I'm not claiming they are anything, I'm pointing that we don't know what they are because:

  • There are massive risks in delegating trust on Press articles to any Trust Overseer given that well resourced actors stand to gain massivelly from setting up such an entity, and thus can derive large Propaganda gains from investing massive amounts of manpower and money in creating a fake one or taking over a genuine one.
  • There is nowhere near enough strength and quality of evidence that Mediabiasfactchech can be trusted with the extremelly high place in the Trust Hierarchy they claim to have.

People should have very strict demands on proof before trusting any such Trust Overseers of the World's Press.

When it comes to Trust, the default is to Do Not Trust until proven otherwise, not the other way around - trust must be earned, the more important the subject matter the harder should it be to earn it - so I don't need to prove distrust, it's you, who are making sky-scrapper sized claims that these people are Trust Overseers of all the newsmedia of the World, who has to provide evidence from sufficient trusted sources (and, no, self-referential chains of trust don't count) and of enough quality to back up such outsized claims.

this post was submitted on 14 Apr 2024
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