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> The way people dealt with it was witness testimony and physical evidence.

Which are inapplicable today.

> We will adjust

Will we? Maybe years later... per event. It's finally now dawning on the majority of Britons that Brexit was a mistake they were lied about.



Brexit is a great example how you can just lie by writing stuff on the side of a bus, no fake photos or videos required


Exactly, it proves how easy it is to influence people. Which would be even easier with fake photos and videos.


> Maybe years later...

It is a concern... it took a few centuries for the printing press to spur the Catholic/Protestant wars and then finally resolve them.


> Which are inapplicable today.

No, they are not.


That has nothing to do with GenAI.


Yep, it's only made worse by it.


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> Oh, do shut up

OP is speaking the truth here.

> It's finally now dawning on the majority of Britons that Brexit was a mistake

As of June 2025, 56 percent of people in Great Britain thought that it was wrong to leave the European Union, compared with 31 percent who thought it was the right decision.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/987347/brexit-opinion-po...


When the Remainer Establishment refuse to use new freedoms and possibilities, and spend the intervening nine years telling people it was a bad idea, then I’d be surprised if it didn’t have an impact on public opinion.

Let’s see what a change of government can do.


> you would prefer to believe that Cambridge Analytica achieved mind control over 17.2M people

I'm not sure "motivated to make a bad decision" is the same thing as "achieved mind control".


I’d say the bad decisions were made by Heath in ‘72 and Major in ‘93. Neither offered a referendum. You may consider this a correction.




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