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Re:Co-founder of Snopes was writing plagiarized articles und... by slg on Friday August 13, 2021 @12:59PM (#28171509)
This is the exact same because "conspiracy theorists might use it" reasoning just flowing in the opposite direction. Conspiracy theorists with conspiracy theorize regardless of the level of transparency provided by journalist organizations.
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Re:Co-founder of Snopes was writing plagiarized articles und... by a_conservative on Friday August 13, 2021 @01:52PM (#28172131)
What!? NPR's website contains articles with false time stamps. Are you ok with this? Why does the conspiracy theorist angle matter at all?

Knowing when an article was written is a useful piece of information that is being destroyed by these always evolving articles. It might not be full on Orwell yet, but these always-mutating-articles are opening the door to an Orwellian future.

We need to be able to go back and look at the past unfiltered and unmodified.

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Re:Co-founder of Snopes was writing plagiarized articles und... by slg on Friday August 13, 2021 @02:29PM (#28172503)
>Why does the conspiracy theorist angle matter at all?

It doesn't. That was my point. I wasn't praising or criticizing NPR. I was saying that conspiracy theorists shouldn't be a reason either for or against transparency.

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