Making something false or fake, especially by changing documents, evidence, or records to deceive people.
From Latin 'falsus' (false) plus '-ify' (to make); entered English in the 14th century as legal terminology for document crimes.
Falsifying records became such a serious crime that in the Middle Ages, forgers could have their hands cut off—yet today's digital era makes falsification simultaneously easier and harder because digital tampering leaves traces that physical documents never would.
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