5.0 The Measuring Trustworthiness of Media Episode (Part Two: The Limits of Computational Trust)

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When Brooklyn, New York photographer and entrepreneur Tiffany Walling McGarity crafted stunning portraits of friends using the very old tintype method, she wanted to preserve them, and the provenance of the images, in digital form. But she discovered that a technical method promising trustworthiness through a computational trust approach deemed her work "invalid" and exposed the downsides of technical trust approaches that reinforce existing institutional power structures. In this episode: Trustworthiness metadata, media trust signals, and "content credentials" News industry assumptions about technical media trustworthiness and and authenticity measures What computational trust measures…