> This is the way it always was back when our primary means of communication was verbal and hand written. Everyone knew anyone could lie. We then had this bizar

> This is the way it always was back when our primary means of communication was verbal and hand written. Everyone knew anyone could lie. We then had this bizarre period of time when you had certain types of media, especially photographs and video, that were extremely hard to fake convincingly. That period is now over and we have returned to the norm: you can't believe it unless the provenance of the information is known and the chain of custody is trustworthy. Which will result in different groups of people living in different realities - if what evidence you accept comes down to whom you trust as reliable, different societies (or sections thereof) will choose to trust different people Which in itself is maybe a return to the historical norm - the truth of Catholicism was obvious to all in 12th century Rome, while the truth of Islam was equally obvious in 12th century Mecca