What we call 'truth' is really just consensus (hence the importance of cancelling / de-platforming / downvoting etc - techniques to secure that consensus) and narrative violations from competing versions of truth which are able to persist is deeply disturbing. We're going to have to get used it - certainty is one of things 'the media' once provided to us but will never be able to do so again

1) Trust is earned.

2) If it’s not earned, it’s not Trust (or trust). Full stop.

3) Once lost, regaining Trust takes 5x to 10x - sometimes perhaps even more - effort to earn it back.

No matter how you cut it, this ^^^ is how Trust works.

Based on what I’ve seen, The Media is not aware of these rules. It’s certainly not interested in #3. Instead, it does the worst thing possible, it blames its customers (i.e., the consumers of its content). Using gaslighting as a proxy for Trust is a rookie mistake.

Governments are not able or willing to fix this so the only winning move is not to play. Create block-lists for social media and corporate media sites. Return to smaller interest based platforms that have less than 20K users each. Avoid anything federated as it only takes one compromised platform to spoil the entire fleet. This will be very difficult for many as the dopamine addiction to social and corporate media will be challenging to break and people like belonging to a massive group. Many will instead invoke coping mechanisms and other excuses to continue their habits. I mention social media as corporate media often control, operate and/or manipulate the masses on said platforms. Some of the manipulators are on this site and will try to defend the big corporate and social media platforms. see if you can spot it...

When I read a post about science in the newspaper, it a lot of fun to guess what is the real event behind all the errors added by the press, the university press and some times even the researchers. Then comes anger.

I assume the same level of accuracy for other topics.