Facilitated‑communication credential laundering

Unvalidated communication methods (like RPM/facilitated communication) can be used to manufacture apparent authorship, degrees and public influence when caretakers or facilitators act as intermediaries. When universities, publishers and media fail to verify provenance, disabled people’s voices are both exploited and obscured, and institutions become vectors for misinformation and potential legal harm. — This implies a new accountability problem across higher education, publishing and journalism: the need for provenance standards when communication is mediated by third parties, especially in disability contexts.