Category: trust.txt
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Trust.txt emerging from the background?
In the four years since the board of JournalList first approved the specification document that is the heart of the trust.txt system, there has been an understanding that the whole system operates only behind the scenes. It is not private or secret, it is actually totally transparent and makes clear relationships that may not have…
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Trust.txt Goes Global with GFMD and Impress
We at JournalList are thrilled to announce two groundbreaking new members of our trust.txt initiative: the Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD), the groundbreaking umbrella organization representing the media development community, and Impress, the esteemed English organization with standards for news outlets. While we have always technically been global, our membership had been largely based…
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JournalList Board Approves New Version of Spec
The board of directors of JournalList unanimously approved publishing the first new version of our specification document in more than two years. As we wrote about before, the main motivation for the change was to include a new element of the document to deal with the robots that work on behalf of Large Language Models…