Paul GrahamVerified account

It's interesting that as more traditional top down media sources have lost authority, individual writers have won their authority from the bottom up The best benefit of info being commoditized

as a former journalist, i agree with that. publication quality and opinion varies widely. i have my goto experts i trust regardless of where they pub (sometimes on twitter!)

I find I read less news and read direct from the source via twitter. It actually is a pet peeve when people talk about a slanted news story when the actual person is sharing their info for free on twitter like @paulg does.

Don’t disagree. Most people don’t have the privilege of knowing individual writers that they can trust though.

@paulg maybe a browser extension that finds author and publication name and displays a crowd sourced and substantiated trust score overlay - similar to the Intercom button. Call it "Antidote" or "Unfiltered".

Isn’t it better that Trust no one? If getting news online (which is by far the best medium) then there is always suspicion of it being fake therefore Trust no one. All News come false narratives. I respect you a lot but how do I know this pic shared is genuine? From a real acc

I feel like this proves there's still a room in the market for a platform for those writers to publish based on their own personal brand.

Seems like social media makes us realize that trust is inherently a personal, one on one experience. Scales very badly. We're collectively in the middle of that epiphany, that's why it's messy.