It’s hard to find absolute truth out there. More times than not it seems the “winner” is the one who tells how “things happened.” It’s a very troubling issue in textbooks and many other formats.
It also become rather hard to try and work out what the truth was in the first place. You could have ten scientific studies all disagreeing with each other on what was the cause or is this harmful or not. So it does seem from your own pointing out "creating truth" is a thing with a dollar amount assigned to it.
Then you have people who for whatever reason just will not accept things so they seek out “truth” and people are more than willing to tell them what they want to hear so it does become subjective at that point.
This came up because I was reading some piece a couple of weeks ago about the skills of some photoshoppers now being so great-- and there are new masks and filters-- that you can't TELL if someone's face has been photoshopped onto another body.
So, basically, if you have a photograph of some person "being somewhere" it's now reaching a point where that's no longer meaningful evidence of ANYthing... because the photo could have been doctored.
How does that impact what we think of as "truth?" What are "facts?"
All it takes is a single doctored photo/video of someone being "beat up by the police" and suddenly you have riots, and all other kind of nonsense before more details come out.
People take at face value what there eyes see they no longer care about the facts. In fact unless you where there and witness something yourself its almost greatened you are just going along with someone's version of what the facts are. Even then witness due to being scared or other factors don't even know what happened sometimes.
People just feel this need they have to be the victim or someone they know is the victim. I'd say even if you did find the truth its impact in many cases is null and void. People just want go from one thing to the next without investing in the time to follow up on things.
Off topic
Not sure how your folders/bookmarks are going but If you ever use discord you should look into GINAbot I gave it a try the other day and I’m loving it so far it’s a very nice digital assistant.
Some of its settings: mentions, votes, comments, and new posts by author (I’ve not tired last one yet.) It seems like it might be the rather easy solution many of us wanted so we don’t have to be so concerned about feed spam.
It’s also free and it just messages you in discord whenever an event you pick has happened. Let me know if you want a link that explains it better than I can.
I saw mention of GINAbot a couple of times in posts this past week, but haven't really looked into it.
One of the mentions that looked appealing is the instant notification if you get a mention somewhere and various other interactions.
I mostly use @penguinpablo's SteemBlockExplorer-- it effectively streams everything that happens, but it's not much in the way of notifications.
now they can put a face (head) ON another body in a video...almost impossible to detect.
and the voice obviously..but they've been changing the voice on video's forever...months even.
some of the excerpts of Trumps Speeches shown by the hostile media come to mind
I don't have to believe it because I witness it first hand having heard it straight from his mouth. As millions of other Americans have as well.
And also have seen it straight from his Twitter account. It cannot be disputed.
Its funny how Trump goes on about #fakenews. It's just news that he doesn't like because it puts him in a negative light.
The real #Fakenews is Donald J. Trump. He is a pathological liar. Plain and simple. I do not believe hardly a word that come out of that man's mouth !