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Pete Buttigieg: “That's no longer available to us, or it's in the process of…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Deans Forum - A Conversation with Pete Buttigieg: "Leadership, Innovation and the Next Generation"

Published | Video Starts at 12:48

There could be fights over what a photograph means, but basically, if you came up with a photo, you could prove that a certain thing happened or didn't That's no longer available to us, or it's in the process of, we're in the process of losing it. But of course, up until the photograph we didn't have photographs and people settled questions of fact and controversies over that. Before blockchain or for that matter, Social Security numbers, we had means of authentication. (12:48–12:54)

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Asserts that photographs are losing their reliability as proof.

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