# Decentralized media

`kaal:entity:decentralized-media`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `decentralized-media`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2021 to 2021.

**2021**

- [3782216-040](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782216-040) [condition/argued] *(failure mode)* -- The decentralized economy still lacks trustworthy open source decentralized institutions for recording and parsing history, reporting news and guiding attention, without which the average person cannot judge which networks to join or what to invest in.
  > We need trustworthy open source decentralized institutions for recording and parsing history, for investigating and reporting the news, for guiding our attention to the future.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782216
- [3782217-019](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782217-019) [predictive/argued] -- If transparent democratic institutions are not built to replace the corrupt ones, new opaque centralized institutions will take their place, as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter already do with secret algorithms that control what stories spread with no democratic oversight.
  > If we don't build transparent democratic institutions to replace the corrupt insti- tutions, new opaque centralized institutions will. Already, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are creating secret algorithms that control what type of story can be spread through their platforms
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of History In Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782217

## Verify

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