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  "id": 18742,
  "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/youre-thinking-about-online-trends-all-wrong",
  "title": "You’re Thinking About Online Trends All Wrong",
  "summary": "From pessimism around dating to AI reshaping culture, cyber-ethnographer Ruby J. Thelot tells WIRED why people are putting too much stock into things that go viral.",
  "authors": "Jason Parham",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "military-security",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-12T09:30:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-13T05:10:37.786Z",
  "source_slug": "wired-ai",
  "source_name": "Wired",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.wired.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18742",
  "original_url": "https://www.wired.com/story/youre-thinking-about-online-trends-all-wrong",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
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