• Onihikage@beehaw.org
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    7 months ago

    The title does need updated, but I suspect it was accurate at the time of posting 23 hours ago. The article appears to have been updated at least twice, based on the URL.

    • soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz
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      7 months ago

      That’s my biggest gripe with online news articles. Editing titles and content.

      I witnessed it happen in real time a couple months back when they were switching between Hamas and IDF bombing that hospital, modern media is a shambles

      • Baby Shoggoth [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        7 months ago

        It’s not really editing titles. They publish it with various titles that get split-tested at first, whichever version of the title gets more clicks then becomes the only title used.

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        7 months ago

        Maybe it should be a requirement to preserve original headlines at the bottom of the article if they change it.

        OK, not requirement, who would ever enforce that, but it would be a nice trend, if nothing else.