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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Im gonna keep adding this, because it keeps getting posted like this.

France declares state of emergency, bans TikTok in New Caledonia amid deadly riots

This is the actual headline. Can you not cut off part of the headline in a way that makes it misleading?

Yes this is still a fucked up situation, but the modified headline makes it seem like all of France is in a state of emergency and banned TikTok nationwide.

[–] Five@slrpnk.net 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The title is auto-populated from the site's meta information. The meta title is usually the same as the article title. In this case it's not:

<meta property="og:title" content="New Caledonia riots: France declares state of emergency, bans TikTok"/>

There's no conspiracy to report deceptive headlines; it's probably just an alternate title in the website code that wasn't changed with the other content after the article was already in print.

Also, where else has this been posted? I don't see any cross-posts.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not saying its a conspiracy but its confusing either way. There were like 5 of these titles in the past 24h and at least 20+ posts about the topic in general.

[–] notfromhere@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago

Sounds like breaking news.

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