How are pictures used in court when it is getting increasingly getting easier to alter them

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How are pictures used in court when it is getting increasingly getting easier to alter them

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Answer 1

First of all, it is not easier to alter photographs today than in the past.

Someone who provides evidence in court, and the evidence they provide, is examined by the attorneys and sometimes also by “expert witnesses” who present their opinions to the court.

The jury decides whether the evidence and the analysis of the evidence presented during the trial is believable.

This is how in 1917 most people in England decided that The Cottingley Fairies were real. Photographic evidence was presented, and most people decided that the pictures were genuine, and that the photographer had not engaged in deception.