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Reporters Without Borders sues X (www.voanews.com)

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 114 points 4 days ago (24 children)

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.

[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (21 children)

Ok maybe a very stupid 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.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

A good example of this is their insistence on using the comma, to mean "the", "of" or "and", leading to some bizarre headlines.

Midland, Baker, Roz, Mazda, convicted, fraud

Which despite the fact it just sounds like a list of random words, is in fact a valid sentence. Or at least it represents one.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 4 points 3 days ago

Though today we get:

Find out what these big four names were convicted of!

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