# kaal:claim:3782217-020

**Claim.** Truth discovery in the marketplace of ideas is more effective and efficient when news aggregators are more decentralized: ten newspapers reporting on a story produce a more accurate historical picture than one newspaper reporting on the story ten times.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- marketplace of ideas
- competing independent aggregators

**Source quote.**

> Truth discovery in any market, including the marketplace of ideas, is more effective and efficient when news aggregators are more decentralized. When there are J` newspapers reporting on a story, a more accurate historical picture emerges than when one newspaper reports on the story J` times.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *The Importance of History In Decentralization* (2021), News and education, page 8

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of History In Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782217

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**Topics.** institutional-design

**Keywords.** truth-discovery, news-aggregation, wisdom-of-the-crowd, media-diversity

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