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[–]GoValidateYourselfuseful lesbian 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

maybe because Twitter hits first these days, journalism is all about not being scooped?

I think you hit the nail on the head with this statement, and it explains how a blatant lie that can easily be fast-checked can get around so quickly! This seems like a serious problem with social media. I don't know what the answer is to fix this. Maybe Twitter should just be deleted? The very nature of the character limit format seems especially prone to distortions. It's possible the only reason why it has not become a full-blown propaganda mill is the ability to link to other sites.

Redactions should not get to be buried in the footnotes.

100%. [REDACTED] needs to accompany the headline when stories have been proven false, and it needs to accompany citations to that story.

[–]fuck_reddit 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Under US law, redactions and corrections are supposed to be given equal prominence to the original story... which has been interpreted to be an unannounced footnote at the end of an article that was the TOP story for days the week before...