I can't work out if it's Seinfeld, Brazil or a episode of Star Trek where a planet does something funny and the Captain finds out it's from something random tho

I can't work out if it's Seinfeld, Brazil or a episode of Star Trek where a planet does something funny and the Captain finds out it's from something random thousands of years earlier. They wanted to block a story on Hunter Biden, so made up a reason of Hacking and people truly believed it. I can just see the meetings were people exclaim how they have realised these 'hacking' tweets are actually everywhere, and George who made up the story just has to keep digging.