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Reporters Without Borders sues X (www.voanews.com)
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[โ€“] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

A good example of this is their insistence on using the comma, to mean "the", "of" or "and", leading to some bizarre headlines.

Midland, Baker, Roz, Mazda, convicted, fraud

Which despite the fact it just sounds like a list of random words, is in fact a valid sentence. Or at least it represents one.

[โ€“] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 4 points 3 days ago

Though today we get:

Find out what these big four names were convicted of!