• @scarabic@lemmy.world
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    92 years ago
    1. NYT writes article
    2. Roboticist tweets about one fact in it
    3. Substack blogger turns that tweet into a sensational headline

    You can just watch the different food chains interacting here from legit media to independent authority to bottom feeding headline-shagger.

    • @wahming@monyet.cc
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      2 years ago

      4: Insightful comments on Reddit / lemmy tearing apart the sensationalism, but getting buried under lame jokes.

    • @luciferofastora@lemmy.zip
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      32 years ago

      Unfortunately, the substack article seems to be freely accessible, while the NYT isn’t. I understand the whole “support journalists” angle, but having to sign up to read stuff so they can more easily correlate what I click on and sell usage pattern data rubs me the wrong way.