The Trust Flip

We will come to see that our default of “trust first and check later” was only a short temporary anomaly in our long history. We are back to the state we have been in for most of our time as humans, where we “check first and trust later.”

This historical perspective is helpful. It is a short window of human history where photographs and videos were the primary validation of truth claims. We’ve operated on networks of trust and reputation before. We can operate on them again.