I thi the name of this trope should be changed, it's far too limiting. Why not call it something more related to general forgery? It would allow for many more examples of how people in fiction can be fooled so easily by falsified information. It might also help to remove The Future from the title since it also restricts examples. Perhaps it should just be called Can't Spot A Fake.
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I can see snowclone concerns - feel free to propose a rename in the Trope Repair Shop.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
The meaning of the page quote is also confusing to me without context. Is it saying nobody edits images or images are unbelievable because they're all edited? Sort of like "Nobody drives in New York, there's too much traffic."
I'm posting this to the discussion page because it's only half an example. On a Legal Drama show I recall seeing relatively recently - say within the past three years or so - this was Discussed: the subject of a lawsuit was a baseball player charged with murdering one of his coaches with a foul ball hit at his head. The prosecution had a video in which the player was shown to have control over where the ball was hit, but the defense argued that the video was inconclusive because it had no provenance (it was from an anonymous source) and it couldn't be proved not to have been tampered with. Problem is, I don't remember what show it was. Maybe Boston Legal or Eli Stone.
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Don't think that was it - I don't think I watched that show, and based on the TV.com recap - "The lawyers helps a baseball player with a mechanical eye when he is given an unfair advantage" - I just plain don't think that was it. In the show I saw he was allegedly just really talented at directing where the ball would go when he hit it. No scifi/Applied Phlebotinum involved.
Ohh...maybe it was Head Cases or Just Legal, two blink-and-you-miss-it shows from 2005. I'll have to look into those.
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"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman