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The Associated Press removes a fact-check claiming JD Vance has not had sex with a couch (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 months ago by usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml to c/andfinally@feddit.uk

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“The story, which did not go out on the wire to our customers, didn’t go through our standard editing process. We are looking into how that happened,” AP spokesperson Nicole Meir told The Verge in an email.

News reports (and fact-checks specifically) are often worded in a way that carefully threads a needle — there’s a difference between saying something definitively didn’t happen versus saying there’s no evidence of it. My guess is that the AP headline was the problem here because it claims to debunk something that is unknowable.

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[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I'm going to start a news website posting articles with absolutely true titles that really sound like they really could have happened. Like this:

"Donald Trump did NOT send a picture he drew of a giraffe to Mokgweetsi Masisi, President of Botswana"

"JD Vance did NOT fornicate with the Ikea LINANÄS Sofa, with chaise/Vissle dark gray"

"Mitch McConnell was NOT the victim of a failed Neuralink attempt from Elon Musk who was trying to communicate with The Mole Men "

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not the News

[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe I'll start a community. "NotNews"

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do it please. I want to laugh a little.

[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Done. Come make me laugh too. https://lemmy.world/c/notnews

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Gotta link it with the exclamation point for people on other instances !notnews@lemmy.world

[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Thanks. I’ma ding dong

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Why is it programmed that way?

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 3 months ago

I assume it's because different instances are on different domains, so a naive link won't take you to your instance if it's some other one. Like on on ttrpg.network and you're on lemmy.world. for me the link points to https://ttrpg.network/c/notnews@lemmy.world

You could try to parse the link and figure out if it's a Lemmy destination and replace it with your instance, but how would you know? That sounds error prone.

You could have a special syntax for linking to other instances, but that's what the exclamation point thing is.

You could maybe have each lemmy server check if you're signed in somewhere else and redirect you, but that also seems error prone. What if you're signed into two different ones?

I don't work on Lemmy so this is guesswork.

[–] ganksy@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm going to sub my way out of mental illness

[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can’t spell mental illness without me

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 6 points 3 months ago

Or "lenient smalls".

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Darn, I have to wait for fedia.io to federate. The community can't be found 😢

Edit: just took a while, it work now! !notnews@lemmy.world