• Wander
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    1 year ago

    Misleading title? “Reddit claimed…”, no, others claimed, reddit has not commented

    • @PhantomPhanatic@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s not misleading it’s just written in a passive voice.

      If you read the whole sentence it’s fairly clear that BlackCat is the subject that is doing the claiming. There’s room for making it more clear but it’s not misleading as written.

      • IntlLawGnome
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        241 year ago

        Yeah, I wouldn’t call it misleading, but it’s poorly written for sure. Active voice would be clearer and more succinct, e.g. “BlackCat claims to have hacked Reddit, threatens to leak data”

        • Flagship6407
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          101 year ago

          My guess is op (or whoever wrote the title) wanted “reddit” to come first to grab people’s attention. Definitely poorly written though.

    • @bogdugg@sh.itjust.works
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      91 year ago

      Can be read as either “Reddit has claimed” or “Reddit was claimed”, but “and it has threatened” clarifies it is not the former.