Verifiable content is definitely not the norm through history. I’d love to see an academic analysis of whether misinformation really went down by much (if at al

Verifiable content is definitely not the norm through history. I’d love to see an academic analysis of whether misinformation really went down by much (if at all) when photography became a thing. Or when camera phones and social media came along. Yesterday there was a fake Trump tweet with a zillion upvotes on Reddit, and that’s just text. Text is trivial to fake, so maybe the chain of trust we see in text is what we’ll see with everything else moving forward. “An anonymous source within the White House provided this footage,” being countered with, “you can’t trust anonymous sources!” It will come down to who you trust, just like it always has.