Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒Feb 20

This needs to be shared on its own for visibility. It’s more difficult to trust Ars Technica after this. I DO respect them for publishing this but…

Frankly it’s getting increasingly difficult to trust any news source.

In the journalism world, fabricated quotes is an egregious offense.
https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/

Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations

We are reinforcing our editorial standards following this incident.

Ars Technica
Show threadKinguFeb 20

@killyourfm

Right after I unfollowed them for spamming my feed with AI ads... :-)

Show threadHelen LH
@Kingu @killyourfm I did the same thing! They're just a big tech ad platform now. No real journalism for a good while.
Feb 20 at 7:16pmWeb
Show threadKinguFeb 20

@Research_FTW @killyourfm

They add their chance!
They failed