Underestimating the mind-warping potential of fake video
But not fake narratives, fake writing or fake news.<p>Convenient that new media celebrities and individuals have greatest audience creation power through video, whereas traditional media still holds sway in print &#x2F; news.<p>So clearly, understand the origins of the narrative that &quot;fake video&quot; is more dangerous: creator videos are stealing mindshare from traditional media. So of course trad media wants to believe it&#x27;s dangerous. Because it is dangerous to them. But not for the reasons it pretends. At least not more than fakery in trad media.<p>Which there is plenty of. Including disguising a defense of their (failing?) business model, as a moral polemic, a subliminal plea that you need to trust &quot;authority&quot; outlets like them, more.<p>But funny how the concentration of &quot;authority&quot; power, which occurs in places like fact check &#x2F;snopes, is the very thing those places pretend to be against.<p>Better in this distributed age to trust a sea of independent creators than a few authority sites, right? Even if the creators are all russian bots the concentrated few could all be pushing a single line.<p>Or maybe people should just trust themselves, and their own experience. And get more of that, instead of more exposure to media.