Rabbitholed #5: The Chilling Internet Conspiracy Surrounding Johnny Depp, John Frusciante and the Night That River Phoenix Died Outside Depp's Club, The Viper Room, in 1993

You’ve heard of the Streisand Effect? Johnny Depp is starting to learn its corollary: the Streisand Scrutiny Effect.

To be clear: I don’t care about Johnny Depp. I don’t care about Amber Heard. I don’t care about any celebrity.

What I do care about is the never-before-available longitudinal analysis of the news we can now use to fight the utterly malevolent attempts to socially engineer perception. Incidentally, if you want to look at all of the evidence from Depp vs. …