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Critical thinking only helps you determine what could happen, not what actually did happen.

I feel like this question is just a cheap snide remark.

The current political moment provides a lot of evidence for why a technology like this introduces these questions.

A technology where we can fake any type of photo or video is dangerous in a world where tweets dominate the news cycle.