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Named after British technology journalist Ian Betteridge who wrote about the phenomenon in a February 2009 online article, although the general concept is older.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Betteridge's Law
Bet·te·rid·ge's lawToday it means: An adage stating that any headline ending in a question mark can be correctly answered by the word "no". Full definition →