A clearly defined 'industry standard' set of criteria needs to be (read: will eventually be) developed. Something much more significant than measuring the shouting on social media.
We have a sophisticated and very capable semantic web representation as a foundation:
https://github.com/DOACCBut ... in the situation you outline, the difficulty is that those who have the problem aren't those who own the solution. It's a societal issue, not a technical one -- but the technology will be asked to play a part at some point, we think.
Cheers
Graham