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  1. CW: CW: sex, robots, side-boob, The Sun, Twitter

    It's ten years to the day since The Sun published this article that exemplifies their standard of journalistic integrity:
    "We'll Be Having Sex With Robots in the Next 10 Years".

    How time flies! Back then, we relied on Twitter for news, headlines for clickbait articles were quirky and not liable to drive one to rage, and suggestive images were made in Photoshop by people.

    Curiously, the article and the tweet no longer exist. A few months later, The Sun published an article with the same photo and a similar headline: "Women will be having more sex with ROBOTS than men by 2025". These articles appear to be related and based on claims by Dr Ian Pearson, a futurologist. In the years since then, he's been spruiking Augmented Reality, predicting we'll live for ever by 2050, and giving TED talks.

    #TheSun #ThisIsNotJournalism #Twitter