Per HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html):

* If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

* Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

The submission guidelines are clear about this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Use the original title. I've seen many informative titles smacked by this and made less informative. Here, an informative title is made less informative and clickbaity, with no action taken so far.

Again, the original title was "Flawed reporting about WhatsApp". I'm a frequent reader of this kind of news but I seem to have forgotten that it was the Guardian that caused this kerfluffle. The OP's title is accurate to the content while giving much needed context. The original title makes it seems like the article is about "flawed reporting" in general, which is incorrect.

That literally doesn't matter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13766092

The submitter is editorializing.

But also from the HN guidelines:

"If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."

I'm under the impression that this refers to the primary point of the comment. But fair enough. I have removed the part of the comment where I indicated I flagged this submission for editorializing in the title.

I think we all agree that the submitter changed the title. "Editorializing" is tendentious / slanted, but ok, they editorialized.

I think we all know what is written in HN rules.

So what, I like the title. I don't think anybody should do anything about it. I think we should all take it easy and enjoy an interesting article.