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 threadJaye 🍊Feb 20

@killyourfm I'm still a supporter of Ars. The fact that they published such a large, public retraction like this is a good sign. Most publications would just revise the article and maybe put a footnote on the bottom that they "fixed some inaccuracies."

This gives me hope that Ars will continue to be a solid source of tech news.

Show threadF4GRX SébastienFeb 20
@jaye @killyourfm my fear is that more slop is/will be pushed without being detected.
Show threadJaye 🍊Feb 20
@f4grx @killyourfm By then making such a big deal about it, shedding more light on it, I don’t think that’s going to result in more slop. At least that’s my hope.
Show threadF4GRX Sébastien
@jaye @killyourfm let's hope so.
Feb 20 at 7:51pmWeb