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This shouldn't surprise anyone. Political propaganda/lies has been a war tactic for as long as wars have existed and pretty much everyone does it.
Our news organisations are failing us by reporting on things that they haven't been able to verify. I can forgive regular people spreading unreliable info on social media... but journalists should be held to a higher standard than that.
With all the rapidly developing technology for sound and image manipulation, I imagine it would be difficult if not impossible for media to forensically unpick every video. I don’t know what the solution is, and I’m worried it’s just the tip of the iceberg. Inciting social unrest or political support just got a whole lot more sophisticated.
I think the solution is to clarify that the veracity of the claim has not yet been independently verified, as is practice for wartime reporting and coverage of natural disasters.
“ABC News has received the following video allegedly showing the event, but ABC journalists have not been able to receive independent verification of the claim(s) or the accuracy of what is depicted and spoken”.