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Yeah, interesting how people on HN sometimes really get stuck on technicalities...

• epgui 5y ago
  The words we use matter, because they're how we build a shared understanding of the world. I'm guessing, based mostly on how I feel, that people aren't so much annoyed at the negative Tesla news: people are mostly annoyed that the problem description in the title is misleading, and that you have to read the contents of the article with some care to understand what actually happened. It's objectively sloppy/bad journalism, and I think the only question is "how much does it matter". I'd argue it matters a lot in the context of a news aggregator: we should be able to find a more accurate, less misleading, or less impressionistic piece of journalism on this subject. This shouldn't be understood as a cry for "nothing to see here" or "fake news"... On the contrary, it still looks bad for Tesla. Let's just make sure we're focused on accurate wrongs.