[LINK] A bizarre twist on a twist - unreal online persona hi-jacked

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

On 18/04/2013 3:58 PM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> At 03:45 PM 18/04/2013, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>> If I read something on Reddit or Hacker News I don't know its ownership
>> so I greatly decrease its credibility and trust. I'm more inclined to
>> check sources for these reports than for newspaper reports.
>>
>> Linking this subject to another thread... I trust our currency (owned by
>> the Australian government) much more than I would trust Bitcoin (owned
>> by whom? with what credibility?).
> I don't disagree with any of the above. Trust is relative, and even
> if I may trust a person on one domain, I won't necessarily trust in
> all domains. And I certainly don't trust mainstream media just
> because a story has been supposedly vetted by an editor because there
> are too many vested interests involved and too many barrows being
> pushed for unexposed reasons or even outright denied reasons that are
> also untrue denials.

There's multiple levels of trust operating here.

With a newspaper I can reasonable trust that I know who wrote it, 
especially if it is a known name.

However, I might not trust that what they wrote is true or of value. 
Think Alan Jones and his latest rant re the Boston bombing. I think I 
can trust that it was he who said it, but my trust in his opinion is 
something else.

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Regards
brd

Bernard Robertson-Dunn
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