[ouid]

Ban advertising, which is paid lying, and then the trust problems that result from everyone being paid to lie and exclusively being paid to lie will go away.

[lifeisstillgood]

That's quite an interesting idea.

I wonder what a social media landscape would look like if we managed to implement UBI. Effectively we would have any number of financially independent news sources and aggregators.

This is of course the same thing as "subsidies" but without professional ethics etc.

It's going to be interesting looking for a new news model for the coming decades.

[zepto]

The problem will get worse if you ban advertising. The money that went to advertising will just shift to “influencers”, which is even less authentic.

[ouid]

What are you talking about? Influencers are advertising, and are likewise banned.

[zepto]

How would you ban influencers? They are just content creators. Anyone can sponsor their work.

I can sponsor an open source project whose work I like. Likewise I can (and have) sponsored musicians.

Why couldn’t a corporation sponsor someone who for example makes youtube videos about fashion, or a tech blogger for that matter?

[ouid]

I don't think I would need to work very hard to show that this was paid endorsement.