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I recently saw a thread fawning over regular posters without much critical thought to standards for editors in the age of meme-based reporting. The 90s yutes, upset about their aunts' chain mail emails' claims about artificial sweeteners and theology, ran to the Internet in search of Truth but stumbled into a breeding ground for misinformation. Oop!
I did read the article before I posted it. Hence my putting something from way down in the article in the body of my post.
And the headline might be a bit deceptive, but it's not inaccurate.
The article was both amusing and it fit the criteria of news, so what's the problem?
A better title would have been "Man arrested by FBI for SEC hack had searched 'How to know for sure if you are being investigated by the FBI'."That would eliminate the incorrect implication.
I don't disagree that there could have been a better headline. As I said, it's deceptive. But it's also not inaccurate.
OP used the title from the article. Is that not convention?
Yes, it is. But when the article's title is bad, that's more than enough reason to break convention.
Standards for reporting on Internet forums are the same as for the grocery store tabloids that agitated the forum dwellers to begin with
What are you even talking about now?
You're on a forum. You are a "forum dweller."
I'm still talking about standards of reporting, and pointing out that Internet culture tends to be especially vocal about truth and science while amplifying the same ol' sensationalism and romanticism.
Okay? Well I wasn't doing that. I was posting a bit of news that I thought people would find amusing. It was clear from the headline that it was basically fluff news. You could easily have just skipped it.
The FOX standard 😂 news when it humiliates the opposition, levity in between
Which "opposition" is this humiliating? People who run crypto scams that hack government accounts?