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Idiot repeating a provably false internet lie about some imaginary disgrace is asked who they heard that from.

Idiot confirms they're an idiot by saying the magical words: "A reliable source."

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The idiot repeating the soundbite, or statistics-without-logic following the crisis to the applause of the idiot applauding the repetition of the soundbite, or statistics-without-logic following the crisis.

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Academic with details in social media bio and >=1000 social media followers RTing/boosting
an unlikely story.

Unlikely story revealed within hours of posting as disinformation (or fake news/bullshit/decontextualised half-truth) in a reply to the original post by user with <100 followers posting link(s) to what happened.

No follow up by academic acknowledging mistake.

Same academic slams political opponents for spreading disinformation and further grows following.

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Social media user:

- deletes message without acknowledgement, apology, explanation or any reason
- expresses disgust at bookburning or the #memoryhole from #1984byOrwell, shares suspicions of others engaging in cover-ups without hesitation

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A minimum level of competency at coercion, artlessly pursuing the acceptance of a change results in apparent success.

This has resulted in the industries that offer tools and services aiding that cause getting the bonuses and scaling down investment in achieving the goal.

Around this time acceptance is in fact revealed to be a minimum level of apparent compliance, with widespread patterns of hidden non-compliance and celebrations of moments of malicious compliance.

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Increasing popular usage of terms #AI and #artificialintelligence to refer to things the creators never described as such (though their financiers & marketers perhaps have).

This includes programs that are a decade old, if not older, and narrowly defined conservative implementations of things such as an algorithm or a not-staggeringly long series of if/else statements.

(Arguably not a forecast since adversarial challenge control in videogames has been called "AI" for years).

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The #MontyHall problem, but with the exact same incorrect description of what the #MontyHallproblem is as the last time the Monty Hall problem was described by people who don't know what the Monty Hall problem originally was.

Imagine forcing out of your head your understanding of the game "telephone" or how a photocopy of a photocopy decays quality and clarity because it's time to derive one's self esteem for repeating on faith a strategy for a gameshow, doors and goat dilemma.

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New small service offers superior product or service to multi-billion dollar competitor, denies rumours they're for sale, denies rumours the corporation has made a bid, proudly announces the company has been acquired after much "soul searching" and "rethinking what's best for the users (etc etc)", writes a "going forward"/"bright future together" piece, and is effectively gone within 5 years of acquisition.

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News outlet covers serial data and privacy molestor (with big ad spend budget) fined by authorities in Europe for breakthrough innovation in data and privacy molestation.

The coverage is barebones and buried compared to the same outlet's coverage on data breeches, leaks and hacks with orders of magnitude smaller people affected.

Afterwards, editor of outlet later boasts of how they covered the story "unlike others", "stand up" to "corporate giants" and "champion privacy".

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User with some hashtags popular among young libertarians in social media bio writes a "they're a private company they can do what they want" argument to aid a corporation sunk in a marsh of controversy...

....despite previously writing on the exact same account, perhaps in all caps, a condemnation of a branch of their government in a comparable (if not identical) controversy.