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The lack of maintenance was more a sheer disregard for the extraneous than an absolute lack of funds. Dmitri’s team was occupied with more urgent matters involving, impacting and influencing the lives of millions of men and women. Dmitri’s organisation VIRUS – ‘Voices Influencing Real Understanding Subtly’, indefatigably worked to neutralise the spread of disinformation and deep fake. Targeting troll farms, chat bots and psy-op experts, Dmitri’s extraordinarily brilliant geeks distinguished spiel from substance, channeling and steering online discourses towards a logical outcome. Employing a highly complex & convoluted set of algorithms, VIRUS signified humanity’s one last remaining hope.
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6 comments
Hopefully VIRUS can restore the purest form of humanity in mankind.
Hoping so too fervently! Thanks Much!
I hope it happens as we are swimming in a soup of anything goes.
Interesting read.
That one seemed way too much like truth! Good writing.
Thanks a lot!