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A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 157 points 1 year ago (4 children)

A Reddit spokesperson, who requested that The Verge not use their name due to the sensitive subject matter

What the fuck is this? We’re granting corporate spokespeople anonymity now?

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  • [–] 89 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You give it to whoever asks for it or you never get another source again.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    This isn’t a “source”. This is a corporate spokesperson

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Even though it's a corporate spokesperson, they wouldn't have requested anonymity if they were allowed to talk about it...

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Untrue. Reddit employees doing what their bosses tell them to are justifiably afraid of the blowback. Reminds me of the directive to not wear Reddit branding with the 3rd party app thing These folks don't want targets on their back.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    In journalism, a source is a person, publication, or knowledge of other record or document that gives timely information. Outside journalism, sources are sometimes known as "news sources". Examples of sources include official records, publications or broadcasts, officials in government or business, organizations or corporations, witnesses of crime, accidents or other events, and people involved with or affected by a news event or issue.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That’s not what they do according to their own ethics statement

    https://www.theverge.com/ethics-statement

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  • [+] -11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm not reading that. What are you saying?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Take the link and scroll down to the section titled “ON BACKGROUND”

    Edit: I never learn how to not try to be helpful to hostile commenters. I’m legit just trying to clarify or explain.

    I tried to help someone who prefaced their confusion with an assertion that they were unwilling to read the linked material. This one’s on me, I guess.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    I still don't get it. Nothing there says a spokesperson is not a source. Which is good because saying such a thing would make absolutely no sense.

    I’m legit just trying to clarify or explain.

    Don't know what makes you label me as "hostile", I'm legit just trying to understand.

    they were unwilling to read the linked material

    It's like 12 paragraphs of non-sense. The person who looked it up and shared the link could just as easily have copied and shared the relevant portion.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    A corporate spokesperson spoke to them “on background”. A “corporate communications professional speaking to [them] in [their] official capacity“ has the option detailed in that section to request anonymity while being quoted.

    There must have been an agreement between The Verge and the corporate representative to speak without being identified beyond their affiliation with the company, as described In the section titled “on background”.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Once again, none of this contradicts what I said.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    “Nothing there said the spokesperson is not a source”

    They said in their statements that they wouldn’t identify a corporate spokesperson as a “source familiar”. That language — corporate spokesperson — is intended to avoid describing the representative as an actual “source” in the sense of identifying them as a leak.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Uhh, isn't that kinda against the whole point of being a spokesperson in the first place? To put a name and a face behind a message?

    Dunno why The Verge plays along.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Actually, yeah. Otherwise, you fuck up whistleblowing. They could be in the position, realize what's happening is wrong, be documenting it, trying to get out, etc...

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