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One of the most “burning issues” of the past year is the question of trust, more specifically trust in leadership. The pandemic has widened and deepened the trust gaps that emerged in recent years. The Israel Democracy Institute issued a report which indicates that Israel is experiencing a total collapse in the amount of trust the public has in all institutions. Election polls too show a similar trend, with none of the candidates winning even 50 percent of the votes in the question of who is most suitable to be the prime minister or in other word, the public does not trust that one of the candidates is equipped to lead the country. It seems as if the public is gathering in smal
Many sources, one picture: Bringing together different datasets gives central government officials a rounded view of the pandemic’s impacts on economic activity and household incomes. Illustration by Katy Smith
Governments have found new sources of real-time financial data that give a clear view of COVID-19’s impact on industries, businesses and workers. At the 2020 Government Finance Summit, top officials from around the world dipped into this treasure trove for economic policymakers and service providers
After the 2008 credit crunch, governments spent vast sums on economic stimulus packages – propping up their financial sectors and injecting demand into the economy. But by comparison to the money being injected into national economies during the pandemic, the sums spent a decade ago were small change. Speaking at the 2020 Global Government Finance Summit, Tony Gardner – a former US Ambassador to the European Union and adviser to knowledge partner Mastercard – explained
most Americans do not trust the mainstream media
According to PR firm Edelman’s Annual Trust-Barometer, fewer than half of all Americans trust the mainstream media despite the constant propaganda onslaught.
Anyone in journalism or media could have told you long ago this would be the case. The dinosaur knowns as Mainstream Media is dying. Before Google conspired with Zuckerberg and other digital giants to crush alternative media, those alternative outlets competed with and beat MSM.
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MSM and Big Tech attempted to put a stop to that revolution, but the damage was done. Alternative media gave a large portion of the American people a glimpse of real journalism, and, ever since, MSM has been slowly withering.
How to Weather the Worsening Trust Crisis
For decades in Western culture (especially since the 1960s), we’ve seen a slow deterioration of trust and a brewing epistemological crisis. We’ve increasingly not known how to know, whose authority to trust, and where we can look for truth.
In recent years, the internet’s toxic buffet of fake news, conspiracy theories, echo chambers, and confirmation bias deepened the crisis. But 2020 took it to another level entirely.
The recently released 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer shows that 2020 saw precipitous trust declines. The fascinating report describes “an epidemic of misinformation and widespread mistrust of societal institutions and leaders around the world” that has been accelerated by COVID-19: