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[–] 84 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sounds like it was the BBC that had omitted the context in the original headline. If anything this highlights how wild it is that Reddit titles still can’t be edited

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The only reason I can think of for that rule is to prevent people from posting something that's very agreeable and then changing it to something terrible once it has thousands of upvotes, and making it look like many people support the terrible statement.

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

    Despite the BBC their extreme pro-Israel bias they never report these titles without sneakily shoving the claim on a third party so they can absolve themselves of their lies.

    According to web archive this is the first title but it had been taken a while after the fact.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20250708132132/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1mz8gxzg82o

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    I mean, it’s pretty standard for newsrooms to report who is making a claim. I read Reuters stories all the time that quote TASS (Russian news agency) without verifying the veracity of the report. I can’t recall a time the reports didn’t say something akin to “Reuters cannot verify the accuracy of the claim at this time”

    Def not cool of the BBC to originally bury the source of the claim in the headline though. Thats bad reporting.

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