It's not just the people who are easily fooled, even the people who aren't fooled end up harmed. First we learned not to trust images in the days of Photoshop:

It's not just the people who are easily fooled, even the people who aren't fooled end up harmed. First we learned not to trust images in the days of Photoshop: https://www.npr.org/2008/07/11/92454193/on-the-smoky-trail-of-a-faked-missile-photo https://www.npr.org/2008/07/11/92454193/on-the-smoky-trail-o... https://twitter.com/Marco_Langbroek/status/937832943518715906 https://twitter.com/Marco_Langbroek/status/93783294351871590... Now with deep fakes, we learn not to trust video: https://www.12newsnow.com/article/news/nation-world/ukraine/ukraine-warns-russia-may-deploy-deepfake-videos/507-4f18ea66-d5c7-4dac-9d41-2aea6495efdf https://www.12newsnow.com/article/news/nation-world/ukraine/... But the end result is also that we no longer trust true information either. We have become cynical, detached, disorganized. But each of us ends up somewhat arbitrarily deciding what to believe out of the sea of indistinguishable bits forehosed at us by the Internet, we no longer have any shared experience or consensus to build a functioning society on. Propaganda does not require you to believe it. It's equally effective if you end up believing nothing.