After reading this post about a blog post from Tuta that supposedly had not-so-good privacy recommendations/information, the general consesus from the replies was that blog writers (in general, not just from Tuta) are often tasked with writing about something they know very little of in order to reach a quota or garner SEO clicks or whatever.
(Some people think that this can lower the trustworthiness of the company in question. Whether one agrees or disagrees with that is beyond this discussion and should take place in the post linked above or some new post.)
This is not to say that the writers and content creators of Privacy Guides are in the same boat as Tuta’s blog writers, ie that they know very little of privacy and/or security. On the contrary it seems they know a lot, coming from a lay person. But the strength and trustworthiness of Privacy Guides I think is its checks and balances between the community and the Privacy Guides team when deciding what information should go on the website.
The worry here is that the information presented on blogs and videos are not necessarily subject to the same checks and balances. I wonder if this worry is warranted? What does Privacy Guides do to ensure that the information released in blogs and videos are subject to at least some checks and balances? For example:
Are drafts read by team members or other editors and fact-checked? What are restrictions and guidelines that they must follow? Are there other goals that writers are tasked to complete that may jeopardize the quality of their content, like reaching quotas or using SEO methods? etc.
Or should we assume that specific blogs and videos only reflect their respective writers’ opinions and not Privacy Guides as a whole?