I first heard this phrase at the start of November at the annual NEC publishing conference, by Fiona Romero a director at the Wikimedia foundation, in her talk - "Knowledge is Human: How Wikimedians are engaging with AI".

I love this phrase, and I think it describes so well what scholarly publishing is here for. It's an idea that has been percolating more and more, and now I am seeing aspects of it in more and more placed.
John Gruber recently wrote about what you need to support journalism - owners and business models committed to truth, and independent of government pressure. 

Werner Vogels was recently giving his views on the future state of tech and understanding what information we can trust is high on his list.

I also just listened to a podcast which covered the origins of the BBC - and the need for public service information was covered. 

Whilst the norms of Robert Merton - describing scientific behaviours - make sense, in a world awash with increasing misinformation what are the new norms and structures that we need to ensure the stability and integrity of the truth infrastructure of the web?