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Re:Evidence that the FBI can hack into private Signal messag... by torwayburger on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @07:44PM (#26096841)
Being a figure of speech has little to do with the statement being factually incorrect.
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Re:Evidence that the FBI can hack into private Signal messag... by TameAntelope on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @07:59PM (#26096934)
Yes it does, since it's not presented as factual.
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Re:Evidence that the FBI can hack into private Signal messag... by torwayburger on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @08:31PM (#26097184)
It's written as a statement, not as a figure of speech. If it's not intended to be factual, it should be annotated as such. It literally claims theft as it stands, which makes the article seem juvenile in use of language.
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Re:Evidence that the FBI can hack into private Signal messag... by TameAntelope on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @09:39PM (#26097622)
It's not written as a "statement [of fact]", that is incorrect.

How did 'beervirus and I know how to interpret the phrase successfully?

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Re:Evidence that the FBI can hack into private Signal messag... by torwayburger on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @10:09AM (#26250647)
You're interpretation of it isn't wrong. You're still wrong in asserting that it wasn't presentes as a fact in the article. It clearly, linguistically is.
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Re:Evidence that the FBI can hack into private Signal messag... by beervirus on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @09:36PM (#26097604)
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/figure-of-speech

It doesn't have to be labeled in big flashing letters "THIS IS A FIGURE OF SPEECH" for reasonable people to construe it as a figure of speech.

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Re:Evidence that the FBI can hack into private Signal messag... by torwayburger on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @10:05AM (#26250610)
Beervirus is stealing my time by arguing nonsense.

See? Clearly presented as fact by the language used and yet clearly it's nonsense. No label necessary.

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