Hello hardly anyone
F*c*book and its subsidiaries, WhatsApp and Instagram, have been hit by a severe, global outage. In response, Twitter tweeted, in fun:
How many people use Twitter, exactly? I'm pretty sure it's not literally everyone
. (thinking)
According to Pew Research Center, only 23% of US adults admit to using Twitter in 2021.
Hmmm. In updating the story to subsequent events, Auntie Beeb overwrote the article that I linked to, instead of creating a new one. Fortunately, the Wayback Machine doesn't forget.
That's a bit naughty, Auntie; you old historical revisionist, you. It's not exactly an ethical editorial standard, and certainly not one that we'd expect from the world's most trusted international news broadcaster
™.
You know that linking is a thing, so why change the essence of what people have linked to? Correcting minor grammatical errors is one thing, but changing the factual content is a whole different other! Furthermore, there is no indication that the article has been edited or updated, and when. (angry)
I've further tagged this post accordingly, in recognition.