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This rule means you have to consider almost everything as fake. Like say, a video of police brutality filmed by one person. How do you "prove" it to be non fake?



> a video of police brutality filmed by one person. How do you "prove" it to be non fake?

You might have almost answered your own question. If there are many videos shot by random bystanders in multiple angles of the event, even if one is fabricated, another video can disprove it; making it harder to fake the event.

This would mean that one would have to 'fake' all the videos and angles from other people which is difficult to do, especially if it is live. So with that, it can be proved to 'have happened' but only if the bystanders are un-related to each other. Otherwise it will look 'staged'.




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