Re: Next CredWeb meeting in 48 hours!

Many people didn't have the link, so sending it so it's handy for the
meeting that starts right now:

https://w3c.zoom.us/j/86745012463?pwd=QubRb9lAG1i7hoRAWxbfbhbG2iSSMb.1

On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 9:02 AM Scott Yates <scott@journallist.net> wrote:

> Dear member of the CredWeb Community Group,
>
> The fourth in our series of Authentic Web Workshops is coming up 48 hours
> after I click send on this email, (8 a.m. in California, 9 a.m. in my home
> time zone in the mountains, 11 a.m. Eastern, 4 p.m. England, and 5 p.m. in
> France.)
>
> (I know this time isn't great for Japan/Australia. If anyone there would
> like, I'd be happy to repeat my presentation and take questions at a time
> that works better for you. Just let me know.)
>
> The project going under the microscope for this meeting is trust.txt,
> which happens to be my creation. Some of you have heard about trust.txt
> before, but you'll still want to join us because we have a new feature...
> For the first time in the history of the internet, there's a badge that can
> be visible on a web page that can't be duplicated in a way that would
> undermine trust. At least I can't imagine how it could be, but that's why
> we're road testing it with this group. Many of you have seen other
> well-intentioned efforts get misused, so I look forward to having you try
> to poke holes in this.
>
> Before then, I'll be doing some additional documentation in github and
> elsewhere. I would have done that before, but my life got somewhat
> swallowed by a different project.
>
> I was the one behind the new Local Journalism Index
> <https://muckrack.com/research/local-journalist-index>, which came out
> last week. It got a ton of attention, which is great. It may not seem like
> the number of journalists working in the country is related to a
> trustworthy internet, but I think there's a direct correlation. The less
> local news people have the more they need to fill the vacuum that's created
> by the very human need to have a flow of information in. More journalists
> fill that vacuum with more local news so it doesn't get filled with crap.
> So, check it out if it is of interest to you, and after we're done with the
> CredWeb meeting I'd be happy to stay after and answer any questions you may
> have about that Index.
>
> Thanks very much, and I look forward to seeing you all on Wednesday!
>
> -Scott Yates
> Founder
> JournalList.net, caretaker of the trust.txt framework
> 202-742-6842
> Chair of W3C Credibility Group <https://www.w3.org/community/credibility/>
> Member IPTC <https://iptc.org/> and Rebuild Local News
> <https://www.rebuildlocalnews.org/>
> Short Video Explanation of trust.txt <https://youtu.be/lunOBapQxpU>
>