Forgeries do have significant impacts. Everything from beef being photoshopped into meals leading to violence (e.g. in Hindu regions), to significantly impactin

Forgeries do have significant impacts. Everything from beef being photoshopped into meals leading to violence (e.g. in Hindu regions), to significantly impacting the burden of proof required for prosecution of war crimes. And that's not even considering what you can do without an actual forgery, just by messing with context e.g. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/we-had-to-stop-facebook-when-anti-muslim-violence-goes-viral https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/we-had-to-stop-... https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/21/world/asia/facebook-sri-lanka-riots.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/21/world/asia/facebook-sri-l... If "deep fakes" become easier to create than mis-contextified video, they can and will be used to spark conflict in areas with simmering tensions. I say this as someone actively involved in avoiding the worst case scenarios; I wrote a piece here with more detail: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/02/22/digital-reality/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/02/... (though HN is not the target audience). [first paragraph repeated from another comment below]