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BBC Trusted News Initiative on how publishers can fight disinformation
There is widespread mistrust of institutions – that is what leaders from Davos to democratic capitals all over the world are pondering.
The annual Edelman Trust index has charted this decline and declares this the year that the pandemic has put trust to the test. Governments, companies and institutions are worrying about their own trust scores – and of course what they can do to make it better.
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March 23, 2021
But as well as their individual actions, they have a stake in an important issue that underpins trust across the board – making the information environment as uncorrupted as it can be. This year has barely begun, but already it is littered with examples in which the human cost of disinformation has revealed itself.