Economics & Finance
Centralized Authority Over Information Credibility
When a power structure claims exclusive authority to define what is 'true,' 'false,' or 'harmful'—and enforces these definitions across platforms—information credibility shifts from decentralized market verification to centralized political judgment. This creates a fundamental principal-agent problem: who decides what counts as 'false,' and who bears the consequences of wrong definitions?
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