Ya, and as long as there's low standard or no standard in terms of making sure the claims are real, then there inevitably WILL be false claims. If you know you can snap your fingers to take down any political rival or anyone you don't like, then people will do it.

In a voluntary futuristic world with p2p credit and ratings, there will be a natural balancing and disincentive around stuff like this. If you're known to report inaccurately, the algorithm should weaken or even remove the weight of your vote. So an interesting thing happens where by falsely accusing you actually compromise your own security. If you falsely accuse people of theft, and now the algorithm dampens your reports, now a thief would see you as a better target than previously. If you falsely accuse people of rape...

Just, in statist world it's kind of warped to where there can be so much to gain relative to how much reputation matters.

"Trump is the master of making statements that the fakenews will pretend to be outraged by, but the general population agrees with."

Haha! Ya he's next level.