The internet is increasingly a low-trust society

The internet is becoming a low-trust society, where an assumption of pervasive fraud is built into the way things function. The internet is increasingly a low-trust society—one where an assumption of pervasive fraud is simply built into the way many things function. Google nukes content farms; Apple rules its App Store with an iron grip; Amazon’s return policy—generous to customers but stringent to vendors—serves as a check against fraud; Facebook and Twitter have been pressured to de-platform the most noxious purveyors of conspiracy theories and fake news.

Source: www.wired.com