The Netanyahu story is the clearest illustration of the new asymmetry: a real person cannot prove their own authenticity using the same channels that broadcast the doubts about it. The Verge headline was not sensational — it was accurate [15], and its accuracy is the problem. Verification tools have not failed. What has failed is the institutional authority that once made a verified result stick. A fact-check debunking a specific deepfake reaches the audience already primed to ask whether the fact-check itself is AI-generated. The correction loop has been severed…