[jauer]

Information is default low-trust unless you have reason to extend trust to the source and that's been the case for thousands of years, if not the entirety of human existence.

We now have the tools to increase trust in specific information, for example: by signing images that need high trust for things like news reporting using camera hardware root of trust with time and geo stamping. If signatures are removed, that's back to a default low-trust state.

[digitaltrees]

I don’t want kidnapping scammers to have easy to fake image generators that are untraceable. I don’t want eBay scammers to have that (sometimes I will ask the seller to take a picture with specific information to confirm a listing is credible). I could site lots more examples

[devsda]

It is best not to extend blanket trust to a specific source at all.

That is how we ended up with the situation where "reputed" media organizations peddle daily lies or selective truths that are useful to their benefactors.