It's hard to know what's real, it turns out.
Sometimes things are obvious. When it’s raining, there’s no doubt about whether it’s raining or not. A flat tire, in all likelihood, really is a flat tire. But much of the world is not directly verifiable in this way. Are there really millions of dead people collecting Social Security? Does China secretly control the Panama Canal? Was that video on TikTok actually Tom Cruise? How do you know for sure?
