authoritativeness

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The blue tick was once seen as a marker of a person's authoritativeness on the site, as only a few people could become verified, such as celebrities, government workers and journalists.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2024

“I believe that Mr. Danchenko identified me as Sub-Source 3 to create more authoritativeness for his work.”

From Washington Times • Nov. 11, 2021

Google’s text snippets are arguably the platform’s worst feature, granting a false sense of authoritativeness to inaccurate or offensive information or even summarizing an accurate answer in a dangerously wrong way.

From The Verge • Nov. 9, 2021

Yet a similar anecdote from a New York Times story discusses a perhaps more promising yardstick dubbed “news ecosystem quality” that Facebook internally assigns to publishers to assess the authoritativeness of their journalism.

From Washington Post • Nov. 26, 2020

Everything conspired to give to the social sanction of the slave-aristocracy an authoritativeness and binding force without a parallel in the history of the nation.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 by Various