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Re:Critical ignoring as a core competence for digital citizens by pjc50 on Monday November 28, 2022 @10:09AM (#33774545)
In particular, a major news organisation saying "person X said Y" nearly always will be entirely accurate that person X did indeed say Y. That doesn't in and of itself convey anything about whether Y is true. And you should be quite wary of "unnamed sources".

(exception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Hari managed to get sacked for entirely fabricating quotes)

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Re:Critical ignoring as a core competence for digital citizens by AnimalMuppet on Monday November 28, 2022 @02:47PM (#33778570)
> That doesn't in and of itself convey anything about whether Y is true.

Especially if X is a celebrity, and not a celebrity for their knowledge about Y. That just says "some random celebrity shot their mouth off about something they likely know next to zero about." That conveys zero bits of useful information.

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