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A user on the online forum 4chan has leaked a massive 270GB of data purportedly belonging to The New York Times. This leak includes what is claimed to be the source code for the newspaper’s digital operations.
It’s amazing the number of times on Lemmy that someone will come in with the completely opposite “explanation” for what I was saying. Almost like they have an agenda.
It’s so weird to turn my statement of “support the news with money” into “the mainstream media can’t be trusted”.
Maybe it’s only happened twice, but it’s still weird that it’s happened twice.
I was wondering if that’s where you were going in part.
I think it’s a bit of the phrasing; you stated an opinion that’s vague to the point of tiptoeing towards the potentially loaded question: “who’s independent media?”
It’s not uncommon in the conservative media sphere to see a similar (typically series) of leading ambiguous questions. They’re never genuine, it’s always in the style of:
I think it’s made a bunch of if antsy lol
Phrasing things in semi-sarcastic converse will do that