>The people who fuss over "is it a real screen shot" are usually less than deep in the material
>To me, it's the shills who claim "You forged it" just to discredit; when it's nothing anyone would bother to forge.
The problem is there are all sorts of fakes flying around, for example a Biden meme pic, where almost everything is real, except one pic, which was shopped, and that intentionally, to discredit the real stuff. How would you verify that a screenshot is real with no URL given?
My point was the whole time that archiving is always good, even if archives are not 100% reliable, but they are something. Not even including URL is silly, google is and was censoring all sorts of shit. When they censor, you won't find the URL anymore by searching for text, although page is still up.
When I can, I use multiple archives, so that at least something sticks. Downloading a page doesn't provide proof for anything though. Easily forged. It's just data. That's the problem with the internet. Just data, fakes can easily be made.
See for example the Comey Q twitter post. Most people would reject that as being fake, so you have either seen it by yourself when it happened, or you verify. Believing in screenshots without sauce is silly, just my take. Maybe the screenshot makes sense, and that's why you believe it. Bad info can get injected that way, and I don't like that.