And now you've got two problems.. If you see an upvoted short link, how do you know the party controlling the link hasn't changed the destination from a site ev

And now you've got two problems.. If you see an upvoted short link, how do you know the party controlling the link hasn't changed the destination from a site everyone trusts? The person controlling the short link may not even be the person sharing it on a platform that trusts them. With normal sites and content manipulation there's at least a reputational aspect that tends to stick.