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Instead of trying to engineer trust, why not actually be trustworthy, admit your mistakes and become better?

Because for many people, the making of mistakes is what makes you unreliable and untrustworthy.

Superficially, they have a news agency with seemingly no errors in one hand and one with a thousand corrections in the other. Unless you are willing to consider that the errorless news agency is just not admitting it, one seems nice and consistent and reliable and one seems clumsy and stupid.

This is only the case until it comes to light the one not admitting mistakes has been making them, at which point all trust is lost.

But people are getting their information from those sources, so how would it come to light for them?

There probably are outlets out there doing that rather than engineering trust. It's just that you haven't heard of them because guess what...definitionally hardly anyone trusts them!

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