How do we determine the truthfulness of a statement on the internet? This is a hard question I have been thinking about for some time. The internet is digital,

How do we determine the truthfulness of a statement on the internet? This is a hard question I have been thinking about for some time. The internet is digital, which means it's divorced from reality, everything on the internet is either typed in, uploaded, or generated. You could rely on publishers and scientific journals to ground the content with some authenticity. But we're seeing a similar issue with these scientific journals, where there's too much publishing and not enough peer review. You could require proof in the form of video evidence, but in this new age of generated AI and video editing, video evidence is suspect. A small circle of insiders has been the status quo in the scientific for a long time, sometimes to the detriment of scientific progress. Now they're also dealing with a much larger circle of outsiders and the enormous volume of content they're producing. I'm not sure what the answer is, except that maybe the answer isn't found online.