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 Objective truth is as dead; there is no global view. We must begin to answer questions by starting local and crawling through social graphs.

So you get a weird link from someone named John. You have a friend named John. The question isn't "Is this the real John?" - a question based on the dead concept of objective truth. It's "Is this the John I know?" - a question answerable by starting local and traversing social graphs.