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5 months agoJournalism becomes a house of commons
Journalism should operate as a civic commons with shared governance and technology to steward information, sustain trust, and resist platform capture.
A confession is often seen as the gold standard of evidence in a criminal case, leading to guilty verdicts even when there is no other evidence, when there's a reason to think the confession was involuntary, and even when other evidence like DNA contradicts the story in the confession. Throughout the last four or five decades, scientists have learned a lot about the psychology of interrogations and confessions.