The depictions of Nero and Caligula come to mind. Dudes might have been crazy, but there were few contemporary resources available to compare. See also: http

The depictions of Nero and Caligula come to mind. Dudes might have been crazy, but there were few contemporary resources available to compare. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero#Historiography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero#Historiography What scares me is that any large org -- facebook, instagram, AP News, Google, the BBC -- could just delete all of their archives, or get some sort of nasty randsomware that just deletes everything or rewrites everything. And that's just an automated thing; the 1984-syle deliberate rewrites could be done via an automated script or some next-gen GPT-3 thing.