One way: truth has infinite detail and no necessity to make narrative sense. Lies tend to be short and narratively rich. This applies beyond biographies.https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1315195815389003777 …
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This is a fundamental of both forensic accounting and criminal investigation broadly, supercharged by automatic recordkeeping: does the lie throw off the collateral metadata you expect the provided details to cause?
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That is the key to spam filtering too. The spammer inevitably leaves tracks he doesn't know he's leaving.
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Brandolini’s Law: it takes an order of magnitude more energy to refute bullshit than to produce it.
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When you say inevitably, do you mean that is what happens in practice or what has to happen because of the nature of spam?
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“Once you remove the impossible, what remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” - Sherlock Holmes
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