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Photo, audio, and video evidence should already be dismissed until one is able to verify the integrity and source. All of these can already be believably faked - it's just a matter of educating people that a layperson can easily create fake things by using tools developed by research teams.

Fake text is the easiest to fake if you can identify the font used - any image editor will work. HN uses 9pt Verdana, even without using dev tools I could fake your post to say anything I wanted it to say since it would just be 9pt Verdana on a solid background set to text wrap every 1050px.

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmajJTcpNk & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmUC4m6w1wo



Not even that much effort, just open the browser's dev tools and change the text in the post to say whatever you like.


I'm aware - but specifically excluded dev tools as faking text in scenarios where dev tools may not exist (eg: chat programs that aren't taking place within the browser) is still trivial.




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