You'll have to go into more detail about "severable statements" to convince me. Hand-waving towards a reference library doesn't really do it as a citation. >

You'll have to go into more detail about "severable statements" to convince me. Hand-waving towards a reference library doesn't really do it as a citation. > The claim of falsity is intrinsically tied (structurally and contextually) to the false statement accompanying it; they are a single contextual unit. I don't see how that can't or couldn't apply to a deepfake: the creator could name the file making clear it was a fake, or put a caption in corner of the video stating so. The "this statement is false" in my example seems just as separable as that. Someone could edit it out or fail to quote it, etc. Some of your other comments are about trivial issues: the grammar could be trivially changed to put the clause noting falsity at the end. I also used a public figure as an example, because the name came to mind quickly, but you might as well substitute a normal person's name for Obama's.