Up until the last decades, photography was an art, and photos were generally manipulated, sometimes heavily , sometimes to remove people etc. This is not new, human societies have survived without video evidence since forever
Except this was time consuming and couldn't be done automatically in an undetectable way.
> human societies have survived without video evidence since forever
Stupid argument, we've also survived war since forever, except now a war between nuclear powers would be devastating in a way war historically wasn't. It will absolutely not be the same as it was before photos and videos.