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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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