Would people value credibility indicators in shortform educational/news content?
Additional question: Would visible credibility indicators and information about the creator like their qualification be of any help for researchers and the new generation overall to get trustworthy information?
I’m exploring a concept for short-form informational content where each video includes, a credibility score, an explanation of why the score was assigned(creator qualifications, source transparency and research methods used).
Would appreciate everyone's view on this, thank you! Ideally something like what Claude Shannon did with Information Theory of Communication, show people where the limits of the system are. Creators aren't told the system is limited. That when everyone is broadcasting together fewer and fewer people hear anything. Creators are told they got 10 views, but they arent told those 10 people then went and paid attention to 100 other things. So their real influence is a small fraction of what the metric is showing them or the people who start backing them because of the metric. These kind of signals dont exist. I love how well informed and knowledgeable your comment is honestly. If you could I would like to know do you think for you or for the people you know something like a credibility score and information about the creator such as their qualifications and sources would be helpful like we scroll through educational podcasts and news everyday on platforms like Instagram but most of the new generation agree to whatever they see without researching, so do you think surfacing that context directly alongside the content would meaningfully help? Every toothpaste comercial here include the testimonial of a (real or fake) dentist. I add 0/1000 value of credibility for it.