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Re:Amazon has a quota for the number of employees it would b... by jsight on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @01:51PM (#27371792)
Yeah, its basically news laundering. One paper runs an article on an anonymous source or scientific preprint. They use the proper terminology to describe the level of confidence involved, which may be low.

Then others pick it up by referencing the first news report. They no longer have to be specific, instead its just "news source X reports".

Unless you follow the chain back to the source, you don't see the actual confidence level. Sometimes you don't even get an accurate picture of the original source.

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Re:Amazon has a quota for the number of employees it would b... by Natsu on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @01:54PM (#27371843)
They'll do literal citogenesis sometimes, too, actually. It's happened in court, too. Oh, hey, look the press reported on the thing we leaked to them, that's proof that it must be reliable, judge!
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Re:Amazon has a quota for the number of employees it would b... by travisjungroth on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @01:54PM (#27371841)
This makes me want to create a tweet tumbling service. Send us a message and we'll send it to someone else, but no one can prove or disprove where it came from.
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