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[–] 19620893? ago  (edited ago)

There's no harm done but also no good

People leak info because they want it out there. What point is there to leaking someone is about to be arrested? None unless it's time sensitive or you think they'll try to keep it under wraps. In both cases you'd need to provide at least somewhat specific info to counteract that.

Someone just saying "someone big will be arrested soon" is just distracting and trying to blow up their own importance. If they're wrong nobody will be able to prove someone big wasn't arrested and if they're right they've done Jack shit.

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[–] 19623011? ago 

It's essentially hopefagging, but white-hat style. In addition, it lends credibility to future information if correct, via validation of sources, encourages people to pay attention, allows people to reference back to it post-hoc as validation, things like that.

Your third paragraph is almost entirely correct though - there are issues with lots of these things. But very small leaks that reveal next to nothing can still be highly useful. This one, I agree, is not so much, but they're still useful. I'd rather minute crumbs were delivered than nothing at all, if i had to choose.

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[–] 19623168? ago 

it lends credibility to future information if correct

It DOESN'T though, that's the problem. It's such a vague prediction and is already out there in the media. No shit that when a rich/powerful man is arrested for the crime of SEX TRAFFICKING that there's a good chance someone "big" will get busted in the same sweep.

If you're right, you've managed to "predict" something that was reasonably likely and already speculated in the media, and if you're wrong nobody will be able to prove it - you can say the indictment is "sealed" or it got moved or any other number of excuses. The reality is if anybody "big" gets arrested for anything in the relatively near future this person will probably take credit for it.