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Threeme2189@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Maybe it can be modified to something like:

“Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by yes or no, whichever seems the most obvious.”

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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Nope:

Betteridge’s law of headlines is an adage that states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.” It is based on the assumption that if the publishers were confident that the answer was yes, they would have presented it as an assertion; by presenting it as a question, they are not accountable for whether it is correct or not.

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AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
That’s no longer true. As headlines focus more and more on outrage clicks straying further and further from the content, all too many can now be answered with ”n/a”

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