4/ 🧵If we wanted to be strict, we could say that no points more than four hops distant from a starting resource would be considered. The author asserts that they discovered a news reporter's statement that values resource A. Also, it's possible that each of those hops needs an exceptionally high-reliability score. Anything with a history of travel via sources we have determined to be unreliable could be disregarded. Trust fund scores can be defined in various ways; more than one method may exist. Also, we have to have faith in this accounting procedure and agent. Similar to how we sign up for a newspaper, there may be many agencies or filters that assess trust. How quickly and enthusiastically you rectify mistakes is another indicator of your reliability. Resources that are good at handling changes and faults tend to acquire more trust than those that aren't. Thus, this scoring procedure becomes another layer, an additional resource that must be trusted.