The Trust Project
The Trust Project What does a nutrition fact panel have to do with mass media and politics? Think of The Trust Project as just that a panel of information designed to help you navigate the trustworthiness of the news stories you read online. The first to join and make the commitment is "The Washington Post, The Economist, and The Globe and Mail, as well as Facebook, Google, Twitter and Bing, in a commitment to 'provide clarity to the [news organizations] ethics, and other standards, the journalists' backgrounds, and how they do their work" (Owen). One of the most important things that The Trust Project hopes to accomplish is shedding light on the journalists that report the news stating that: Hopefully, it will pull back the curtain on some of our practices as journalists, which, in fact, a lot of people don't know about. And this lack of transparency is partly what creates a sense of suspicion." (Owen) Could this be a way to lift some of the d...
