Comment by nonrandomstring

> long term trust the article talks about

Yes this goes beyond ordinary sharp practices. A larger, more dangerous phenomenon nibbles at our way of life.

A couple of buzzwords/concepts rattling around my circles are "epistemic trust" and "systemic abuse" [0], the former is an effect of the latter. To cultivate it, in old-fashioned psyops talk, is "sapping". Epistemic mistrust changes the way we process all future information and is long lasting.

[0] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psych-unseen/202012/...