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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 9817731" data-attributes="member: 19675">Going further, as we’re all aware, disinformation is still a thing online. In The Ninth Gate, there’s all kinds of disinformation on the form of simple mistakes to deliberate falsehoods meant to harm the unwary and incautious.  Add AI and deepfake tech to the mix, occult charlatans spamming their ads, or even true believers seeking to gain followers by misrepresenting their goals & beliefs, and you’ve got more Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.Want to go a bit more Lovecraftian?  The very nature of the particular occult topic resists Man’s ability to accurately record anything about it.  After centuries of writing and scholarship- all rife with errors, of course- modern occultists tried to digitize all of the known sources.  But even those were vulnerable to eldritch corruption.  No two files copied from the same pdf are alike.  You might see a file glitch as you’re reading it.I actually had something mundane but analogous happen to me while writing a 25pg history paper on Emperor Justinian in HS.  After my final edit but before printing, I saved it…then noticed something odd on my screen.  The letter “J” in Justinian had been replaced by something that looked like a Viking rune.  I tried reloading from my saved file, but it was still there.  Then I realized that EVERY “j” in the paper had been replaced by that “rune”.  It took hours to re-proofread the paper to replace words with those altered letters with synonyms.  The cause: a corrupted circuit on my computer’s motherboard.</blockquote>

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