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Re:Disinformation for hire, a shadow industry, is quietly bo... by giantg2 on Monday July 26, 2021 @12:14PM (#27961269)
"Stories online, when altered, are labeled as such with corrections."

I get that. But how do the TV news programs do it? I don't remember them starting with, or including at all, a corrections segment.

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Re:Disinformation for hire, a shadow industry, is quietly bo... by fortuna86 on Monday July 26, 2021 @12:26PM (#27961428)
Rarely. Most news isn't "breaking" on TV, even if they do they refer to the online story. So that's where stories are corrected, because that's the official record.
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Re:Disinformation for hire, a shadow industry, is quietly bo... by giantg2 on Monday July 26, 2021 @12:34PM (#27961527)
Do they actually refer people to the online story, or do you just mean they are using that story to regurgitate to the viewers? I highly doubt most of the viewers are recieving the corrections if they're only given online.

Yeah, when there is breaking news it seems there's a ton of speculation and bad information given.

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