Edelman Trust Barometer

Edelman Trust Barometer (an international measure of citizens’ trust in government, business, media, and nongovernmental organizations)

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/

The former CIA analyst Martin Gurri predicted these fracturing effects in his 2014 book, The Revolt of the Public. Gurri’s analysis focused on the authority-subverting effects of information’s exponential growth, beginning with the internet in the 1990s. Writing nearly a decade ago, Gurri could already see the power of social media as a universal solvent, breaking down bonds and weakening institutions everywhere it reached. He noted that distributed networks “can protest and overthrow, but never govern.”