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Re:A Facebook Engineer’s Plea for Political Diversity by sprague on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @12:01PM (#17909980)
The author of the original piece (Gideon) is quoting a different author (Brian). The "[sic]" is not about amplifying a spelling mistake, but rather to make clear that the quote is 100% verbatim.
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Re:A Facebook Engineer’s Plea for Political Diversity by timmytwotime on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @12:59PM (#17910597)
"inserted after a quoted word or passage indicates that the quoted matter has been transcribed or translated exactly as found in the source text [sic]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic

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