A warrant canary is a method by which a communications service provider aims to implicitly inform its users that the provider has been served with a government subpoena despite legal prohibitions on revealing the existence of the subpoena
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If I remember correctly, Marvel/Disney started doing this with the MCU (along with not telling some cast like tom Holland spoilers because they suck at keeping quiet), according to some of those "behind the scenes" type youtube channels (heavy spoilers, MasterTainment, Nerdstalgic, etc)
I've heard Peter Jackson did this with the hobbit and George Lucas with star wars, but I don't know how accurate those are, as I can't even recall where I heard them. So massive tub of salt and all that...
I've actually done this myself, when telling a story I've changed the names of some people involved, and when I inevitably heard back from someone who shouldn't have known, I know who told them based on what name are dropped. It helped cut someone shitty out of my life but I don't like essentially lying to and testing my friends...