Alien visitors offered ''The Implants'' so everyone could access ''The Source,'' a vast galactic AI-operated library.


    Many on Earth accused ''pro-implanters'' of wanting to control the masses.


    An alien historian intervened:


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    "We had the same debates on our homeworld over theories of a hidden agenda by invisible forces. But, of course, it''s the basis for fascism. Facts or rationality need not apply.


    "Our ''anti-implanters'' falsely proclaimed election fraud or grandiose conspiracy theories. Some claimed the existence of shape-shifting interdimensional beings as the stories became more fantastic over time. We faced an existential threat of disinformation.


    "The implants drastically changed everything."