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Not quite. You can prove that a message is authored by whoever controls the private key behind a particular npub, but that does not prove or disprove whether the content of the message is true or false, real or fake.
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true or fake in the sense of who controls the key did publish the message
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If that was your intent, that is certainly not how it read. You insinuated that a signed message allows you to know "WHAT is true or fake." Not who. What. Which would naturally be understood as the content of the message, not the author of the message. "A signed message needs no source. It IS the Wide Landfowl's private key is actually owned by ODELL, you will need some sort of outside verification. So you can't even know that a signed message came from the person you think it did, unless you have first verified that they are indeed in control of that private key and ONLY they are in control of it.... show more
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