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In the end you have to decide to trust someone. Who says the link might not be to some sock puppet websites? See: https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompso

• darkpuma 7y ago
  Trust in The New Yorker is not in question. The matter of concern is reputable news sources, of which The New Yorker is only one example of many, behaving in ways that makes it easier for fake news sites to emulate their appearance. Whether you trust the compiler your browser was built with is also not a serious consideration; pull your head out of the clouds.
  • gerbilly 7y ago
    > pull your head out of the clouds. Wow, that's uncalled for, but moving on. I actually know a lot of journalists, so I'm familiar with the way they work. Even though they don't include hyperlinks, most of them go to great lengths to ensure the accuracy of what they write about. Also it's a bit naive of you to assume every piece of source data has (or even could have) a URI. While this is not a bad idea, it's not possible for a variety of reasons from the purely technical to the practical.