[kyleplum]

There are ongoing efforts to enable digital signatures of online media. The idea is that you (or your browser) can validate that an image or video is unmodified from the source that produced it.

https://contentauthenticity.org/

[russdill]

There are so many technical hurdles to something like this, I don't see it as a solution anytime soon or ever.

[kyleplum]

It's not as far away as one might think.

There was a demo earlier this year (Jan) showcasing the proposed 1.0 spec working in Microsoft Edge: https://c2pa.org/jan-2022_event/

[russdill]

The browser side is not where all the hurdles occur. It's on the capture side and the key/certificate management/revocation side.