There’s no reason to trust manufacturers or governments in this. There’s already plenty of fakery in text and photographic reporting, and political topics are some of the worst cases for it. Basically, these are human reliability problems—why would you expect better for video technology, and why would you expect human institutions to solve them now, when they haven’t for hundreds of years?
The only “solutions” (really more “viable responses” than “solutions”) I see are:
More cameras, more sources, less coordination. If an event is seen from 100 angles on 100 devices, it is going to be very hard to suppress the real images, even if some of them are fake. (but remember that even blockchains are subject to majority attack).
Conditional trust. Honestly, this is all we have today—some sources are careful on some topics, and they do the work to ensure their sources are also trusted (or explicitly tell you that their sources are unreliable).
Human attestation. Legally-binding statements (including “this video matches what I saw”) remain as valuable and trustworthy as ever.
There’s no reason to trust manufacturers or governments in this. There’s already plenty of fakery in text and photographic reporting, and political topics are some of the worst cases for it. Basically, these are human reliability problems—why would you expect better for video technology, and why would you expect human institutions to solve them now, when they haven’t for hundreds of years?
The only “solutions” (really more “viable responses” than “solutions”) I see are:
More cameras, more sources, less coordination. If an event is seen from 100 angles on 100 devices, it is going to be very hard to suppress the real images, even if some of them are fake. (but remember that even blockchains are subject to majority attack).
Conditional trust. Honestly, this is all we have today—some sources are careful on some topics, and they do the work to ensure their sources are also trusted (or explicitly tell you that their sources are unreliable).
Human attestation. Legally-binding statements (including “this video matches what I saw”) remain as valuable and trustworthy as ever.