PDF Forgeries Are Surprisingly Rare (2022)

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People create malicious videos, photos, chat logs, and Microsoft Word documents all the time to scam and propagandize people, or publish entire PDFs full of garbage science, but they don’t edit existing PDFs. There is plenty of incompetence, fraud, and malice online, often in PDFs… but only new PDFs. Because there’s no Photoshop for PDFs, maybe?

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