Balaji Srinivasan

Emmanuel Macron used one of these misleading viral photos 40,000 times, embedded in a New York Times article.

The photo was taken by Lauren McIntyre who died in 2003.

In other words, that showed when that photo was taken.

It was taken many years ago, right?

So these guys were saying like, you know, the case for territorial incursion to Amazon is for most war.

Basically, literally fake photos almost justified some crazy war on Brazil in the Atlantic.

Okay, that's bad.

So, and New York Times Atlantic, like this is a canonical example of where decentralized cryptographic truth was able to defeat.

Okay.

And so we have to go to our, and I can give more examples of this, right?

So basically, you know, three examples.

So here's one.

Okay.

This now was from years ago when photos... Now this could be faked.

Okay.

But from years ago, Vitalik was able to show proof of life when people were saying that he was, you know, was not real.

Tell me if you got that on screen.

We got it.

Then click into that thread underneath.

See, I've been thinking about this for a long time.