• jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    22 days ago

    Here’s the article. The headline now says:

    Reuters and AP journalists killed in Gaza strike were not ‘a target,’ an Israeli military spokesperson says

    According to the “last updated” field, the article was last updated 8 hours before OP made this post on Lemmy. It’s possible the headline was changed, but this may also have been the original headline – I can’t find any record of the previous headline on Reuters, including Internet Archive. (Edit: the headline was changed; see comment.)

    Seeing as this is “Fediverse vs Disinformation,” I think posters have a duty to verify the web page actually reads the way they are claiming at the time they post, or else provide context that the headline has changed.

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        20 days ago

        do you have another archive link? are we sure this is actually the same original article because the entire content of the article is now different, not just the headline. how could we independently check?

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        22 days ago

        I think it’s still important to provide the context that the headline has been changed.

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          22 days ago

          It is, you’re right. There could stand to be much stricter submission policies and review procedures on news submissions generally on this network, imho. It’s tedious thankless work that desperately needs doing.