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Re:SEC Asks Manhattan Federal Court to Hold Elon Musk in Con... by cmroanirgo on Monday February 25, 2019 @10:47PM (#19251829)
> high profile journalists (mainstream media) stating that "Twitter is where we get the news from"...

Wow. This is unbelievably scary.

Imho news should be curated & not first to the wires. News should involve individual fact checking and less web of trust.

I understand how we consumers might want to listen to a journalist's feed, but journalists using it as a source too? It's nothing but a self referential feedback loop otherwise!

One word describes the problem: covfefe

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Re:SEC Asks Manhattan Federal Court to Hold Elon Musk in Con... by sokoloff on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @11:57AM (#19256029)
Related (and I picked a tweet because that was the two highest google results for the phrase I searched):

https://twitter.com/freakonometrics/status/10205573001537044...

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Re:SEC Asks Manhattan Federal Court to Hold Elon Musk in Con... by afiori on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @03:43AM (#19252861)
This is the inevitable long term consequence of click-based revenue. It does not matter if you get the story wrong, if you are the first to publish you still get the money.
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