Reporters Without Borders sues X

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders on Thursday announced that it is suing the social media company X, accusing it of spreading disinformation.

  After Reporters Without Borders, or RSF, discovered that it was the target of a disinformation campaign this past summer, the Paris-based group filed 10 reports of policy violations with X, formerly known as Twitter.

  Since none of the posts in question have been removed, RSF opted to sue the company in French courts “for its complicity in disseminating false information, misrepresentation and identity theft,” the group said in a statement.

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  • Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ok maybe a very stulid question but

    The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders on Thursday announced

    Isn’t that gramatically incorrect? Shouldn’t it be “The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders announced on Thursday”?

    I see this kind of writing a lot in news articles so surely it’s not actually wrong, but that’s not how I was taught English writing.

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    • Deebster@infosec.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s a bit stilted and no-one would speak like that (at least without sounding pretentious), but it’s not bad grammar.

      Also, shame on the moron that downvoted you for asking a question.

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    • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s correct, as much as any English is correct, but not typically spoken naturally like that.

      The press (newspapers) has an idiosyncratic grammar, probably born of maximising space in a newspaper column. Headlines are often grammatical nightmares, body copy less so.

      One could think of it as a form of semantic compression.

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    • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Dialect variation. For me, saying “the car needs washed” sounds truly strange but millions and millions of people say it.

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    • ulterno@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Had they just used some punctuation - “The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders on Thursday, announced”, it would have made it easier to get. Even, “The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders, on Thursday, announced” would be doable.

      How do these feel?

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  • spacecadet@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think they have to sue in French court, right? Couldn’t X just “Section 230” them to no end if they sue in America? Ironically, Trump wants to repeal 230 and claim Platforms are actually publishers, but I guess he wants to do that to silence his critics and no real concern for disinformation.

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’re suing in French court.

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• LEVI@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is going to be good

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  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Trump will designate Reporters Without Borders a terrorist org, and terrorize their reporters using the state.

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    • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They aren’t in the United States. This lawsuit is in France.

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• shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  X, is that Musk’s new fascist website?

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  • masterofn001@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    X marks the spot Nazi.

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