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Mike Masnick ✅Mar 9, 2023

So... last night I pointed out that @filipeesposito, the editor for 9to5Mac made some pretty embarrassing factual errors in an article about Bluesky... and rather than fix those factual errors... he (1) blocked me on mastodon and (2) left the story as is.

In the past I had always considered 9to5Mac and its related publications to be credible sources of news, but now I feel the need to re-evaluate that.

Reporters make mistakes. We all do. It's how you *respond* that matters.

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Mike Masnick ✅Mar 10, 2023

A good follow up!
While @filipeesposito blocked me, 9to5Mac's editor in chief @ChanceHMiller now informs me that they have updated the article about Bluesky, so that the factual errors are now corrected. Thanks for doing that.

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Andrew Woodward Mar 10, 2023

@mmasnick you were fairly adversarial, which isn't a bad thing. But when you're a subject matter expert on something, there are nicer ways to say you're wrong.

I don't think he was making things up as much as he got a little over heated in his writing which happens. I've been there and a good editor can pull you back.

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FreediverX

@andrewww @mmasnick
The writing at 9to5mac has gone downhill for quite some time. Opinions and conjecture presented as facts without any reference or links to sources, tons of typos and grammatical errors, shameless advertorials unlabeled as such.