• soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year 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

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      1 year 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.

    • Baby Shoggoth [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year 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.