Does anyone actually determine what to believe this way? Like if you read a quote from a politician in a large newspaper, you don’t believe it’s real, but if yo

Does anyone actually determine what to believe this way? Like if you read a quote from a politician in a large newspaper, you don’t believe it’s real, but if you see a cell phone video of the politician saying something at a rally, you do believe it’s real? Personally my confidence in the veracity would be the opposite. There’s nothing special about video that makes it fundamentally harder than text to distort, edit, or even outright fabricate.