Future of Trust
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Future of Trust
When extraction becomes this pervasive, people opt out. They go dark and build walls around what matters to them.
And this is already happening. You can see it in the shift from public social media to close friends lists. In the rise of group chats, Discord servers, and paid Substacks. In people using fake names and burner accounts as default. In
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Craig Newmark of Craigslist Has a New Mission: Saving Democracy
Alexandra Tremayne-Pengellyobserver.com
“I was taught that a trustworthy press is the immune system of democracy,” he said. “I could see an immune system not working, and I decided I needed to play a role.” He reached out to industry leaders like Jeff Jarvis to figure out what that role could look like. Newmark was particularly interested in how to regain public trust and fend off disinformation through good journalism, according to Jarvis, a professor at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism. “‘Trust is the new black’ was one of his lines,” he told Observer.”
Without trust in the decision-maker, trust in the process breaks down, and the only important question becomes, “Who decides?”
Ari Schulman • Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs
Reciprocal transparency. If you can see me, I should be able to see you. Not your marketing copy, but your actual ownership structure, how you make money, what you do with my data, who benefits from my participation. The asymmetry has to collapse. This is what Signal figured out early. If you’re going to ask people to trust you with their
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