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What good is video evidence, if it can be faked? It's easy to "fake" news, and has been since cameras were invented - just choose the way you frame the image,
by gaius 9y ago
What good is video evidence, if it can be faked?
It's easy to "fake" news, and has been since cameras were invented - just choose the way you frame the image, or the moment you press record. No-one will doubt the video evidence of police beating protestors, and no-one will believe the claims that just a few minutes earlier they were throwing petrol bombs, after all where's the video?
- jjoonathan 9y agoNot on the police cameras, but it still happened, they swear!
- jdietrich 9y agoIt cuts the other way, too - with a sufficiently pervasive propaganda apparatus, it's easy to frame dissent as unpatriotic, as sedition backed by foreign governments or even as terrorism. If you've been told ten thousand times that enemies of the people are trying to undermine the state, evidence of human rights abuses or corruption might not seem particularly damning.