Epistemic deferral is notoriously unavoidable to a large extent; a human just doesn’t have the capacity to fact-check everything or even a very large fraction of the information we receive from other humans.
It’s possible to a very large extent, e.g. senior nomenklatura in the late Soviet Union, who were notorious for disregarding anything and everything that didn’t pass through multiple committees, secretaries, etc...
Of course bogus information could still got through, but at least it was verified to be superficially plausible enough to fool a sufficient number of serious folks to sign their name on it, such that the final decision maker was largely insulated from any resulting mistakes.
Which is almost as good as fact checking literally everything for at least one person.
Though the cost of setting up and maintaining such a system is very high, likely to destroy even the US in a few decades, so it’s not recommended.
It’s possible to a very large extent, e.g. senior nomenklatura in the late Soviet Union, who were notorious for disregarding anything and everything that didn’t pass through multiple committees, secretaries, etc...
Of course bogus information could still got through, but at least it was verified to be superficially plausible enough to fool a sufficient number of serious folks to sign their name on it, such that the final decision maker was largely insulated from any resulting mistakes.
Which is almost as good as fact checking literally everything for at least one person.
Though the cost of setting up and maintaining such a system is very high, likely to destroy even the US in a few decades, so it’s not recommended.