Roland Perry: Program for a Puppet. I have the copy I bought in 1979 and it doesn't seem so fictional now.
Video, audio and photos can be faked far more realistically than the
Cottingley Fairies, which only fooled those that wanted to believe.
Chat Bots are rubbish, but most untrained people are taken in.
I don't know about a Seldon Crisis, but certainly we are in a more Post Truth era than Stalin's photo editing and revisions of history. It's not new. The Chinese Cultural revolution was at least the second time.
About 259-210 BCE, 259-210 BC, 9740-9789 HE
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Quin Shi Huan banned Confucianism along with all other schools, except for the Legalist school or Fa-jia, which was the official government philosophy. Freedom of speech was suppressed, hundreds of Confucian scholars were buried alive and several classic Chinese texts were burnt.
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From
https://www.ancient.eu/Confucianism/