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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not the News

[–] NineMileTower 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe I'll start a community. "NotNews"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do it please. I want to laugh a little.

[–] NineMileTower 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Gotta link it with the exclamation point for people on other instances [email protected]

[–] NineMileTower 5 points 3 months ago

Thanks. I’ma ding dong

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

Why is it programmed that way?

[–] [email protected] 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/[email protected]

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 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] NineMileTower 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can’t spell mental illness without me

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Or "lenient smalls".

[–] [email protected] 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! [email protected]