Photoshop and minor video manipulation is enough to trick people into believing fake news, this will make it harder. I see political parties doing simple edits to make people believe anything, this will push it multiple notches higher.
If the news confirms what they think is the truth, it doesn't need manipulation, just a fake heading
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/climate-protest-ukraine-bo...
for example (and in that case it even had the true caption on the video, just not in English)
I don’t think it’s elitist to think many people will be duped. I think it’s arrogant to think you won’t.
There's also the unravelling biography of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Santos#Scandals (you know someone's doing well when their "scandals" section has ten subheadings! And that's all old-fashioned manual fraud)
(I'm now wondering how far you could get with an elected official who's entirely deepfaked and only appears in recordings. Probably all the way to being sworn in, at which point someone has to appear in person. People have occasionally been elected despite being dead, so it's not impossible)
If electoral boards around the country or at the national level were all sounding the alarm for irregularity in voting returns or procedures then an election might have been stolen. As it stands, the election results match the earlier polls which is a strong indicator that, at best, the election became a tossup at the time it was held, and the military also didn't find any reason to suspect fraud or error.
Unless the people doing the swearing in are also fake.
This matters a loooot more than the smart enough people realize too, because it's so difficult to imagine what it's like being south of that threshold, the potential consequences are difficult to imagine.
> Or do you think you yourself will fall for this as well?
Yes.