Apparently the timeline of the discovery of the Bucha massacre (as reported by the NYT!) is questionable, since the mayor didn't mention anything about mass killings when the town was liberated. Also it neatly coincides with a Ukranian op to clear the area of "saboteurs and collaborators."
I gave Ukraine some benefit of the doubt about the news when it broke because the presence of dozens or hundreds of dead bodies to fake a massacre just seemed unbelievable. It seems I was at least partially wrong.
This scenario goes along with video of what's supposedly Azov (or another neo-Nazi group) accosting and killing civilians trying to leave Mariupol.
Welcome to 2022. I know nothing, I have no certainty and life has never been worse.
Nobody can be sure about the raw footage authenticity anymore, because the media has never been more corrupt. And the technology? Any 14-year-old can insert a digital tank into a short movie he shot with his smartphone.
Therefore, it's not unthinkable to consider that the corpses could have been inserted, too. The combat zone footage is not believable any more. Generating some pictures is extremely easy. Videos are not a reliable proof anymore.