> It has been true only to a certain level. […] as long as it happens it small enough number it is possible to have people point it out and make a fuss about it

> It has been true only to a certain level. […] as long as it happens it small enough number it is possible to have people point it out and make a fuss about it. I think the opposite is true. This isn’t a historical perspective, you’re using logic to speculate. Historically speaking, there have been fakes that reached huge numbers of people, and they were more damaging then than they are today because they were more believable; the public had not yet conceived that photos could be faked, and it was not possible to see evidence of fakery. Today, everyone knows photos and videos can be faked. I don’t know of any deep fake videos yet that have tricked a large number of people or been used for political purposes. Maybe it has happened, I don’t know, do you know? But there have been lots of influential faked photos. Just Google a little to find hundreds of historical examples of famous and misleading doctored photos. (Lots of overlap in these lists, because some of the photos are famous). https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~beki/cs4001/history.pdf https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~beki/cs4001/history.pdf https://delmarwatsonphotos.com/photographs/famous-photographs/ https://delmarwatsonphotos.com/photographs/famous-photograph... https://www.quora.com/What-historical-photos-are-highly-misleading https://www.quora.com/What-historical-photos-are-highly-misl... https://www.businessinsider.com/fake-photos-history-2011-8 https://www.businessinsider.com/fake-photos-history-2011-8 https://www.ranker.com/list/historic-images-that-were-retouched/stephanroget https://www.ranker.com/list/historic-images-that-were-retouc... https://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=29607 https://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=29607 https://www.pinterest.com/yosomono/faked-images-everyone-thinks-are-real/ https://www.pinterest.com/yosomono/faked-images-everyone-thi...