Correction: he didn’t write about having sex with a couch.

“The story, which did not go out on the wire to our customers, didn’t go through our standard editing process. We are looking into how that happened,” AP spokesperson Nicole Meir told The Verge in an email.

News reports (and fact-checks specifically) are often worded in a way that carefully threads a needle — there’s a difference between saying something definitively didn’t happen versus saying there’s no evidence of it. My guess is that the AP headline was the problem here because it claims to debunk something that is unknowable.

  • @NineMileTower
    24•4 months ago

    I’m going to start a news website posting articles with absolutely true titles that really sound like they really could have happened. Like this:

    “Donald Trump did NOT send a picture he drew of a giraffe to Mokgweetsi Masisi, President of Botswana”

    “JD Vance did NOT fornicate with the Ikea LINANÄS Sofa, with chaise/Vissle dark gray”

    "Mitch McConnell was NOT the victim of a failed Neuralink attempt from Elon Musk who was trying to communicate with The Mole Men "

      • @NineMileTower
        15•4 months ago

        Maybe I’ll start a community. “NotNews”

              • @Psythik
                2•4 months ago

                Why is it programmed that way?

                • @[email protected]
                  2•4 months ago

                  I assume it’s because different instances are on different domains, so a naive link won’t take you to your instance if it’s some other one. Like on on ttrpg.network and you’re on lemmy.world. for me the link points to https://ttrpg.network/c/[email protected]

                  You could try to parse the link and figure out if it’s a Lemmy destination and replace it with your instance, but how would you know? That sounds error prone.

                  You could have a special syntax for linking to other instances, but that’s what the exclamation point thing is.

                  You could maybe have each lemmy server check if you’re signed in somewhere else and redirect you, but that also seems error prone. What if you’re signed into two different ones?

                  I don’t work on Lemmy so this is guesswork.

            • @ganksy
              5•4 months ago

              I’m going to sub my way out of mental illness