Sunshine (she/her)@piefed.ca to Technology@piefed.socialEnglish · 3 months agoDOGE uploaded live copy of Social Security database to ‘vulnerable’ cloud server, says whistleblowertechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square12linkfedilinkarrow-up184arrow-down11
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minus-squarePitLoversNeedMeds@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·3 months agoBut you therefore admit any company can make any statement and if it doesn’t go through the CEO it will omit the quotation marks…? Because that’s my gripe about all this, companies are given the benefit of the doubt.
minus-squareglimse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoNo? That’s not what I’m saying. The position of the quotee doesn’t matter at all. Example: Denmark summons US diplomat over Greenland ‘influence’ attempts
minus-squarePitLoversNeedMeds@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·3 months agoThat article headline has exactly one claim, the ‘influence’ claim. Yet there are two within the one we’re talking about: “DOGE uploaded live copy of Social Security database” And “Vulnerable” Yet only the latter is in quotation marks. Selective quotation seems intentional and meant to disparage the message being spread here.
But you therefore admit any company can make any statement and if it doesn’t go through the CEO it will omit the quotation marks…?
Because that’s my gripe about all this, companies are given the benefit of the doubt.
No? That’s not what I’m saying. The position of the quotee doesn’t matter at all. Example:
Denmark summons US diplomat over Greenland ‘influence’ attempts
That article headline has exactly one claim, the ‘influence’ claim.
Yet there are two within the one we’re talking about:
“DOGE uploaded live copy of Social Security database”
And
“Vulnerable”
Yet only the latter is in quotation marks. Selective quotation seems intentional and meant to disparage the message being spread here.