[JadeNB]

> > I can't see how functioning democracy can survive without truth as shared grounds of discussion.

> I don't think the US was a monarchy for its first hundred years.

Did the US not have truth as shared grounds of discussion for its first hundred years?

[timschmidt]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism has been a thing for a very long time.

[JadeNB]

Right, by which standard truth has never been a shared grounds of discussion. I think that there's a big difference between "some people lie" and "there's no agreement on shared truth."

[bonoboTP]

That has nothing to do with generated videos though.