I wouldn’t doubt it. Even text headlines are enough to create false memories. We see a headline claiming a thing, if we don’t do any due diligence or have some prior knowledge to see behind the headline and just take it at face value, then it almost becomes a sort of factoid. If it comes up again, we just recall having read about it somewhere, but now we’re seeing two data points, so maybe there’s something to it.
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I'm sort of concerned about articles like these because it isn't as if convincing fake video wasn't possible until now. I remember watching a show talking about the JFK scene in Forrest Gump which was produced way back in 1994. Bad actors have had access to deceitful tech forever. It's just a bit easier now.