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Pete Buttigieg: “We've had the benefit of about a 100 year period in which…”

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"

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And a whole new set of skills that we took for granted, including around determining and distinguishing fact from fiction, what is true from what is. Think about how lazy we have gotten at authentication because We've had the benefit of about a 100 year period in which any question of fact could mostly be settled...if somebody...could produce a photograph. It was just proof. Just this happens around the edges. There could be fights over what a photograph means, but basically, if you came up with a photo, you could … (12:24–12:37)

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Asserts that photographs have been a primary means of settling factual disputes for about 100 years.

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