"... believing some big synthetic narratives and presumably taking some action they wouldn't/shouldn't have taken if not for this synthetic narrative." We have

"... believing some big synthetic narratives and presumably taking some action they wouldn't/shouldn't have taken if not for this synthetic narrative." We have had that already for millenia I am afraid. Deep fakes have nothing on the power of plain old bullshit. Like the pretext of Carthage's "Aggression" against Rome.