Comment by listenallyall
2 days ago
Catfishing
Convincing older people that their children/relatives are in jail/hospital/kidnapped and need money
Disinformation/chaos by faking important speeches by politicians
Fake celebrity endorsements of products and causes
Rewriting historical events with "newly uncovered" footage
Other creative ways of ripping people off and lying
Was thinking trying to look cool on a dating app
> Disinformation/chaos by faking important speeches by politicians
I do wonder what the end game here would be. A race to the bottom where any televised speech is brought into question. I wonder if that would destabilize all power bases to the point that people will finally look at the actions of their politicians rather than their words. Wishful thinking perhaps.
I think that taking political speeches at face value was flawed anyway, so. Maybe someone will finally get tired of this circus and invents Bitrule somehow.