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This part of the story stood out for me:

>More emails arrived in my inbox.

>“When will you update the article?” one was titled. The email had no text content, only an image — a screenshot of my initial interaction with Daniel.

>Except it did not show my actual response to Daniel, but a fabricated message that I had not written.

>“Hi Daniel, Thank you for noticing, I checked with the IDF Spokesperson and it was indeed intercepted. I sent it now for editing, it will be fixed shortly,” I supposedly wrote. (To be clear, I wrote no such thing.)

this seems to be a main issue.

Would it help journalists if emails were quotable by default and the first party email providers could verify specific quotations? This way this class of fraud, market manipulation, and fake news would disappear.

I don't see why people wouldn't leave their responses as quotable when responding to journalists, for example, and journalists could also set their responses as quotable by default.

What do you think, could this help this issue?