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“clippy” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash.
Section titled ““clippy” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash.”

Mac Quarantine

This is a common issue with MacOS. It happens when the app is downloaded from the internet and not from the App Store. To fix this, you need to remove the quarantine attribute from the app.

Terminal window
xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/clippy.app