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> the FBI took more of a meme-account approach. ... it didn’t even bother to link out the FCC, where the information came from. Sadly, this is one that almost
by pwg 4y ago
> the FBI took more of a meme-account approach. ... it didn’t even bother to link out the FCC, where the information came from.
Sadly, this is one that almost all "news" orgs. are guilty of. Almost every single one of them fails to "link out" to the item for which they are reporting (when they are reporting on something for which a link to the source would be possible). Why they almost all seem to fail to link I do not know, but it is by far a much too common problem.
- notjulianjaynes 4y agoThere's "a pervasive idea amongst news organizations that they did not want to send readers 'offsite,' perhaps misunderstanding the value and purpose of links [1]." In the case of this juice-jacking revival, I am personally skeptical of the timing, with it coming shortly after the publication of what I believe to be a much more important story about smartphone security [2]. [1] https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~neha/hyperlinks/main-no.html https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~neha/hyperlinks/main-no.html [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/us/politics/nso-contract-us-spy.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/us/politics/nso-contract-... Edit: grammar