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42% of EU citizens still see the US as a trustworthy partner. In Germany, that's already down to 27%.
https://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/fileadmin/files/Projekte/eupinions/EZ_eupinions_Europe_s_Call_f…

Respondents across the U.K... rated the satirical candidate known as Count #Binface — #Farage's main likely opponent in the Aug. 13 by-election — as more trustworthy and likeable than the man who hopes to be prime minister.

A UK report on the plan to require social platforms to prominently show "trustworthy news" acknowledges that criteria for trustworthiness are yet to be defined (Joshua Benton/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/the-brit

The British government wants to force more trustworthy news into your doomscrolling
The British government is asking social media companies to put more news — real news, produced by public service broadcasters like the BBC — high up in people's feeds. And if companies refuse, it'll pass laws to require it. That's the main takeaway from a new report issued Tuesday on a host …

Musk v. Altman: Altman faced an intense cross-examination from Musk's attorney, who asked "are you completely trustworthy?"; Altman replied "I believe so" (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman

Sam Altman faces awkward grilling over 'toxic culture of lying'
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was bombarded with questions from Elon Musk's attorney over whether he lies to advance his business interests.

The CEO of PLOS on What AI Asks of Open Access: 'The most interesting question isn’t how to make existing published articles more trustworthy for AI use, it’s whether the article itself is still the right unit of scientific communication, and whether the infrastructure we’ve built around it is actually serving science or just serving a publishing system that science has grown accustomed to.'

What AI Asks of Open Access - The Scholarly Kitchen
As AI systems increasingly reason from the scientific literature, the integrity signals that make research trustworthy - open data, structured metadata, robust retraction processes - matter more than ever. PLOS CEO Alison Mudditt on why open access publishers have a different set of obligations in an AI world.

@factsentinel@mstdn.social That's all part of due diligence in good, trustworthy, reputable journalism. The reader should never have to trouble themselves with those details and should be able to assume it's all be done correctly. Any noteworthy details about the vetting should be in the text itself. AI slop has undercut that proud tradition and made this kind of attestation necessary but it's nothing to celebrate. Shouldn't need to be there at all.

Ensuring Trustworthy Online A/B Testing: Addressing Five Key Questions on CUPED
Yu Zhang, Bokui Wan, Yongli Qin, Jinyong Ma, Yifan Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18750 https://

"[The #Fediverse] became the only place consistently posting trustworthy information I could actually access. This became personally relevant when Trump threatened to invade #Greenland, which is the kind of sentence I never expected to type"

Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse
I have never been an "online community first" person. The internet is how I stay in touch with people I met in real life. I'm not a "tweet comments at celebrities" guy. I was never funny enough to be the funniest person on Twitter. So when Twitter was accidentally purchased

Building a retrieval system for local news, where getting it wrong actually matters. Marcel Dokters is at #bbuzz26 to talk about the real challenges of making a local news RAG trustworthy.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/building-a-local-news-rag-the-quest-for-trustworthiness/
Get your ticket: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/tickets/

Does anyone know about the Winston AI FF plugin for detecting AI content? Is it trustworthy?

RE: https://social.seattle.wa.us/@mako/116812782045699626
So sorry to hear. Sincere condolences to the family.
I never met Om in person. At the time he was running GigaOm and I was publishing myNoSQL, I considered him and his publication as the top trustworthy and not chasing vaporware.
RIP