The company stated that
through trust indicators, readers will be able to make more informed decisions and decide themselves whether the news they're consuming is trustworthy or not.
So if you're displaying a certificate or
other trust indicator, use blue to create the sensation of trust and security.
An overview
of trust indicators, commentary from Director of Journalism Ethics Sally Lehman, and more.
Google, Twitter, and several publishers, including The Washington Post, plan to begin
using trust indicators to help people determine the reliability of the content they're reading online.
Leading media companies representing dozens of news sites have begun to
display Trust Indicators, which provide clarity on the organizations» ethics and other standards, the journalists» backgrounds, and how they do their work.
Specifically, The Trust Project has released eight
Trust Indicators created by leaders from over 75 news organizations that will offer additional transparency about an organization's ethics and practices.
That means the news organization has worked closely with the Trust Project and has agreed to display the eight
core Trust Indicators and their attributes under certain conditions.
A key part of that effort,
called Trust Indicators, will be adapted by major social networks including Google, Facebook, Bing, and Twitter.
In a recent announcement the company
introduced Trust Indicators: these appear at the top of articles published on Facebook and allow users to gather further information about the publisher, including their policies on fact - checking, ethics, and corrections.
News organizations that agree to the commitments and have worked closely with the Trust Project to display the
required Trust Indicators and implement associated markup may use our Trust Mark logo.
It
said Trust Indicators are part of a larger effort to combat false news and misinformation on Facebook.
Now live on Facebook,
Trust Indicators offer easy - to - access information about a news organization's ethics and practices.
They will, at some point in the future, begin
showing Trust Indicators, and so will several more outlets over the next six months.
The chart below shows our eight
core Trust Indicators and their attributes, which offer transparency across multiple dimensions.
It just seems like
another trust indicator and shows them that I'm not afraid to reveal my name and contact info.
But age is not always
a trusted indicator with the probable of the person.
Facebook's latest attempt at fighting fake news is through «
Trust Indicators» and joining a collaborative effort with the...
The trust indicators were developed by the Trust Project, an «international consortium of news organizations collaborating to use transparency to build a more trustworthy and trusted press,» launched today and primarily funded by Google and Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist.
Facebook's latest attempt at fighting fake news is through «
Trust Indicators» and joining a collaborative effort with the Trust Project.
Haymarket Media Group will be implementing
the Trust Indicators on three brands by the end of the year.
Three British news readers: Reactions to
Trust Indicators and Prototypes (interviews by Graham Bond, Jaron Murphy, Martin Buckley, Patricia Arlott, Chris Richards, Kevin O'Donovan, all faculty within the School of Business, Law and Communications, Southampton Solent University)
The Trust Indicators set standards for media outlets and allow newspeople to commit to good faith reporting that's worth buying,» said Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist, whose philanthropic fund was an early supporter of the Trust Project.
The Trust Indicators put tools into people's hands, giving them the means to assess whether news comes from a credible source they can depend on.»
Starting today, they will begin displaying
the Trust Indicators through this module, initially rolling them out to a small group of publishers, with plans to expand more broadly over the coming months.
The first news organizations to adopt
the Trust Indicators are going live this month, including The German press agency dpa, The Economist, The Globe and Mail, the Independent Journal Review, Mic, Italy's La Repubblica and La Stampa, Trinity Mirror and The Washington Post.
Facebook wants you to know what's fake news and what's not (supposedly) so it is embracing another tool: «
Trust Indicators.»
In a process she led, hosted by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, senior news editors created
the Trust Indicators based on in - depth user interviews, combining user needs with journalism's highest values.
Lehrman took that research and worked with top news leaders around the world to identify and design a digital system that meets those needs:
the Trust Indicators.
While some outlets already disclose information included in
the Trust Indicators, the new system standardizes this information across the industry, making it easier for both the public and news distribution platforms to find it.
The Trust Indicators are the way for news people to commit to good faith reporting that's worth buying.»
At the same time that news sites are bolstering their transparency through
the Trust Indicators, digital platforms aim to incorporate them into the way they display news stories.
The Trust Project's
Trust Indicators are a different matter, of course.
On Google,
the Trust Indicators will appear within Google News, Google Search, and in other Google products where news is found, the company explained in a blog post today.
In a first step, the Project has released eight
trust indicators that newsrooms can add to their content.
Here's a snippet from the Newseum panel «Rebuilding Trust in News» that capped our launch of
the Trust Indicators in November.
The contribution will help the Project continue to fulfill its mission of building trust and transparency in news as it enters Phase II of its rollout, increasing news partner participation, building public awareness, and fine - tuning
the Trust Indicators.
The UX Working Groups (Americas, Europe) and Development Working Groups (Americas, Europe) who worked together on the details needed to implement
the Trust Indicators and associated markup vocabulary on news sites.
At the Trust Project Summit in New York, collaborators from 20 news organizations reviewed
the Trust Indicators and selected a priority set.
You'll find links to
the Trust Indicators live on publisher sites on this Trello board.
«What we do as part of
the Trust Indicators is we publish those in a very visible way so our readers know where to get those.
Overseeing a research and a grants program to support design and innovation around
the Trust Indicators.
In the segment, she details the challenge of trying to solve the problem of trust, the collaboration with the Trust Project and the reader demand for solutions like
the Trust Indicators.