The spread of these fake images will sound the death knell to the remnants of social trust and cohesion that we enjoy. We are only at the beginning of this journey but soon enough we’ll be in a place where the first immediate and visceral reaction to anything unpleasant will be a refusal to believe it’s real.
The absolute bastards who spread this fake photo are complaining that the government is not taking the catastrophe of Helene seriously. In the process of complaining they are making sure that the government will simply deny the reality of the next Helene and that denial will sound believable and realistic to everybody affected.
And please don’t tell me this is inevitable. People who are caught plagiarizing are eviscerated and destroyed even though they aren’t meddling in a humanitarian catastrophe where lives are at stake. And good, they should be held accountable for this egregious violation of academic rules. Why, however, are we accepting Thai bastardization of our newsfeed?
That whoever created and spread this fake image (or the fake quotes from Vance’s autobiography or the fake images of mass graves in NYC during COVID, etc, etc) is not eviscerated like the plagiarizing Columbia profs is a terrible mistake on all our parts.
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