 The debate surrounding this question is analogous to the debates about individual testimony discussed in  Section 3.  For instance, suppose that you are justified in believing that p on the basis of a group’s testimony that p. Miranda Fricker (2012) defends an Assurance View according to which your belief is justified by the group’s assurance that p (but see Faulkner (2018) for a criticism of this view). Lackey (2014) defends a reliabilist account according to which your belief is justified by the reliability (or truth conduciveness) of the group’s statement that p (but see Faulkner (2018) for a criticism of this view too). Finally, Faulkner (2018) defends a qualified Inheritance View according to which your belief that p can be justified by the justification that the group has (or at least has access to).