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Erratas: The Word You’ll Probably Regret Searching For
One of the internet’s most infamous mysteries
Nowadays, the internet has established itself as an essential tool of nearly everyone’s daily life. Despite both the web’s usefulness and usableness for the world, there exists plenty of conspiracy theories that question its credibility. Erratas can likely be credited as the most disturbing one of those.
What Exactly Is Erratas?
Erratas ( often misspelled ‘Eratas’ to avoid detection ), is the name of an alleged computer algorithm that is said to conduct data surveillance of anyone that searches for that particular word on the web, while also leaving no traces of itself behind. Many suggest that the data collected by the algorithm is used by colossal companies, such as Google, in order to develop an A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) machine that can filter out humans, while others seem to think that its main use is the removal of copyright infringement from content on websites, like Youtube. The idea of it being an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) is also present.
How The Theory Initiated
The mystery began with a post an anonymous user made on November 26th 2015, on the website 4chan in which the user describes a…
