If I were an independent journalist I'd look into the podcasts and media produce by Kash Patel current FBI director prior to starting his job.

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

If I were an independent journalist I'd look into the podcasts and media produce by Kash Patel current FBI director prior to starting his job. I'm really curious how he handled information in the context of journalism. Did he ever issue corrections when proven wrong? What did he consider reliable sources.

There is some evidence that his information management has not changed despite a very different context and this is alarming.

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

Unrelated? (hopefully) I've been thinking about how with a system of back ups one could *prove* that a particular file was never on your phone or computer. Tricky problem!

Naturally I trust my "friends in the government" to puzzle it all out.

[bri_seven@queer.party]

@futurebird maybe i am too neurodivergent to tell whether this is a real question, in general you can’t prove a negative, but as backup snapshots have hashes you can at least show a file never being backed up. full disk images could also have hashes.

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@bri_seven

It is a real question. There isn't much a person can do if they are facing fabricated evidence from the government. We've seen this most often from individual police or police departments, and some people have been exonerated after evidence planting became too obvious. (caught on camera for example)

But what about planting digital evidence? That would be harder to contest. I think backup snapshots might be the only option.