Transmission of knowledge through testimony requires that the hearer possess adequate epistemic reasons to treat the source as credible, per Fricker's evidential internalism about testimonial justification.
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justification(Third condition of the tripartite account of knowledge)
The condition on a knower's belief that excludes mere luck — the belief must be held in a way that is appropriate or warranted, not merely accidentally correct.
knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
testimonial justification(Used to describe the epistemic status a hearer can obtain from a speaker's assertion, independent of whether the speaker's own evidence justifies the belief.)
Epistemic justification for believing a proposition that is acquired through a speaker's testimony rather than through direct first-person evidence.
testimony(social epistemology)
The transmission of knowledge or information from one person to another by telling them