"infohazard" meaning in English

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          "text": "A basilisk, in this context, is information that can hurt you simply because you are aware of it. Yudkowsky uses the term 'infohazard'.",
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          "ref": "2019 August 28, Fletcher Wortmann, “Infohazard Warning: How Internal Memes Infect Your Brain”, in Triggered, Psychology Today, retrieved 2020-08-31:",
          "text": "If a meme is any idea that gets in your head, then an \"infohazard\" is a meme that's actively harmful to its host.",
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        "(chiefly science fiction) A piece of information which is directly harmful to one who knows it."
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        "An information hazard; a piece of information which can be used to cause harm by one who knows it."
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        "(chiefly science fiction) A piece of information which is directly harmful to one who knows it."
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