Not sure bout now

Oh ok thanks ...

Didnt know that

Oh there it is , shit im slacking on my tech stuff

All I see is someone asking for a person who shouldn't be employable

The names of those courses, so good! 😁

"Black Geographies". Plural?

"Critical insfrastructure studies".

"Postcolonial urban theory".

https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1025367898309775361

bbc swooping in with another great example of why stealth edits are unethical

Black Geographies ~= Slums

Critical Infrastructure Studies ~= Prisons

Postcolonial Urban Theory ~= City Planning

???

That hairstyle on Sarah Jeong makes much more sense.

Also yeah, stealth editing needs to be countered somehow

NewsDiffs and archive sites are good, but knowledge of them isn't widespread enough

I wonder who flags an article that "needs" edited. Is it an editor who notices something and demands it be rephrased or is it a response to angry tweets from activists?

In this case, it was obviously some "you can't be racist to white people" idiot who demanded it be changed.

If I had to guess, when people quote the article in a way that makes it sound as bad as it really is, somebody notices and says "We need to make this sound less bad"

and vice-versa for anti-right wing/conservative articles

Really, though, their database should be tracking all changes to any article, when they were made, etc., and then the website should be taking that metadata and displaying it whether they like it or not

@Timcast speaking of editing http://gothamist.com/2018/08/02/ny_times_defends_hiring_writer_with.php

“Term’s use by white supremecists”

lol

nyt really is evil

stealth editing is evil

defending racists to serve your agenda is evil

i dont care if jeong is racist

I care that they fired quinn norton for similar bullshit

they have no principles

Knowing the NYT, they'd probably say their principles are "flexible"

And then later stealth edit that to say "flawless"

Im fine with them hiring jeoung but defending her and lying about it is disgusting

Idk if it was hyperbole or my misunderstanding but I remember news reporting that Indy business we're putting signs out that said no gays allowed when a bill allowing the businesses some room in that regards

From what I remember news was reporting that the businesses were doing that

However it never had happened and I can't find the old articles anymore

This was like 3-6 years ago

@ExceptionalFeather tim talked about a site that archives the news stories from the editing i forgot what it was called @Timcast

newsdiffs.org

You could prob find it there

they dont get em all though

There it is

Some news sites block archiving though that’s why it doesnt get all of then