Deepfakes And The 8 Pillars of the Post-truth Era

Nobody is invalided. But nobody is right.

What do you know about the world? No really, what do you actually know?

What one thing do you know to be 100% true?

“The earth spins around the sun”

Really? Have you been into space? Did you see it for yourself? Or did somebody else tell you about this “fact”?

“ Hitler killed millions of Jews”

Did you personally see it happen? Were you there? Or did you hear it from your history teacher? Where did your history teacher get this information from? A history book? What if this history book was written by the government who lied in order to spread propaganda against the Nazis? Can you say with 100% certainty that this isn’t a possibility?

“ I am a man called David”

How do you know you’re a man? Maybe you’re a woman plugged into a digital simulation. You can’t disprove this possibility. And is your name really David? Or did two people claiming to be your parents just tell you your name is David? Are you sure they’re your parents? Did you conduct a DNA test on them? Or did you just believe what they told you?

Almost all of the information you have about the world was given to you by another human…