Or the story runs not about the event itself, but the reaction to the event, with what "possibly/probably" happened reduced to a mere feature of the context which produced the reaction
This is already routine, minus the deepfakes. Material is gathered to serve the story, not vis-versa. Even after events are explicitly proven not to have occurred as stated, it's not uncommon to see the ensuing coverage defend the story as bearing a sort of "thematic" truth.https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1139962191686197248 …
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Yah, we didn't need anything like deepfakes to spawn the "binders full of women" hysteria in 2012.
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Did you ever know a person who was in the news on TV in the 1990s. "It didn't really happen that way."
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