Officials suppressed rumors by hunting their source rather than their truth
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- Information content is defined by surprise or improbability, not repetition (similarity 0.80)
- Institutional and legal constraints give people strong external incentives to be trustworthy (similarity 0.79)
- Distrust is self-reinforcing because it starves itself of corrective information (similarity 0.79)
- An ultimate power to decide generates its own norms and cannot be trusted (similarity 0.79)
- Hegemony must be won before power is seized, not merely imposed by force after (similarity 0.79)
- Colonial archives preserve fantasies of what might yet be, not just events. (similarity 0.79)
- So-called objective accounts encode the standpoint of the powerful (similarity 0.79)
- Dominant powers benefit from engineering their subjects’ inability to trust (similarity 0.79)
- Islamophobic claims serve to positively define their speakers rather than describe Muslims (similarity 0.79)
- Trust is merely evidence-based expectation while trustworthiness is motivational (similarity 0.79)
- Ideologues claiming the key to reality must adapt to every new event (similarity 0.78)
- Trust necessarily stays moored in expectations and interests (similarity 0.78)
- Common sense is ambiguous and conservative, resisting new truths (similarity 0.78)
- In Sicily there is nothing as suspicious as luck. (similarity 0.78)
- Power generates the will of the power-holder rather than serving it (similarity 0.78)