There is a famous statement that you are known by many people, and each one has a different version of you in their memories. Everyone see’s who you are differently according to how they have ‘experienced you” (Knowing what you are like through direct contact or interaction).

A problem arises when someone tells you gossip or lies about someone and your opinion is formed on the lies or gossip, and the only proof that you have is your loyalty or relationship to the person who gossiped to you, or lied to you.

You see, we can hear a version of events from someone who we trust, are related to or has been a friend, has a title and so on, and even though part of our brain tells us that we are just hearing a story or a version of a story and there is some natural scepticism because we don’t have actual facts, we take the easy way out, and the easy way out is to accept what we have been told as if it is an actual fact, a true, beyond any reasonable doubt.

This is how Flying Monkeys are created in a Character Assassination. People are told a story that seems to fit with the limited facts that the listener knows of, and since the lies and truths seem to fit hand in hand it is fully believed, enough to hurt the person who the story is about.

With Deep Fake, Face Swapping, the ability to fake photos, a persons voice, and to apply persons face on to another body, have it talk in your voice, and look like you, all easy to do on a home computer, we are at a dark time in technical history. A time that makes it harder and harder to be able to tell what is real, truth, or not, because now fake looks far too convincing and looks like truth.

Add to this doppelgangers, of which it is said that we have at least 6 people on the planet while we are alive who looks very close to how we look, and could be used to fake videos and photos about you.