Yeah I don't expect institutions to get their reputations back anytime soon. But I could imagine some distributed social networks coupled with cryptographic sig

Yeah I don't expect institutions to get their reputations back anytime soon. But I could imagine some distributed social networks coupled with cryptographic signatures and blockchains could be used to reach consensus on some ground truth. I think this already basically happens today, albeit informally. But the deep fakes make it possible to disrupt these networks. Cryptographic signatures could at least validate sources and by minting it on-chain you get a verified timestamp of the assertion or story.