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Those subjects could lie.

Journalists would have a hard time showing that an interviewee actually said what claim they said.

Wire-tapping by the police also would become useless in court.

⇒ I would adjust it to “unless it has a reliably chain of trust”. That would mean that people could judge differently about whether to accept some things as true, but I think that’s unavoidable.



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