Well, as it stands, it is impossible to monitor and weigh in on every muting and abuse report on Nostr. But it is much easier to monitor the behavior of a guy running the “these are real posters” whitelist. Because spam is just incredibly easy to identify. If you’ve ever installed SpamAssassin on an email server, you know that Bayesian filters work pretty well and you basically never get spam again.
I also think there are going to be very few people getting malicious subject to false reports, and it mostly involves politically sensitive subjects and controversial speakers. So it is a very easy job to analyze the whitelist and verify that accounts aren’t spam. Because they have posts like mine — human looking full paragraph posts that are not repetive and don’t contain an excess of links or financial tickers. We know spam when we see it. And if one of the authorities is whitelisting spam, I think that can be identified very quickly and they can have their authority revoked.