You can’t trust your eyes to tell you what’s real anymore, says the head of Instagram

Instagram boss Adam Mosseri is closing out 2025 with a 20-images-deep dive into what a new era of « infinite synthetic content » means as it all becomes harder and harder to distinguish from reality, and the old, more personal Instagram feed that he says has been « dead » for years. Last year, The Verge’s Sarah Jeong wrote that « …the default assumption about a photo is about to become that it’s faked, because creating realistic and believable fake photos is now trivial to do, » and Mosseri eventually concurs:

For most of my life I could safely assume photographs or videos were largely accurate captures of moments that happened. This is clearly …

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