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    2 months ago

    There’s some small chance that this is not machine-generated slop, but it’s still not Not The Onion material.

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        1. Links to news stories from…
        2. …credible sources, with…
        3. …their original headlines, that…
        4. …would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

        Given what passes for “news” some of the time I suppose you might find some better-conceived piece about poo-flinging in e.g. The Guardian, but personally I think rule 2 is where we run into real problems here.