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InkIcan t1_jd6h395 wrote

I got 2/3 of the way through this article and I still don't know why. Way to bury the lead.

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illy-chan t1_jd6hod2 wrote

Good bit of the way down:

> "On Feb. 1, the Justice Department unveiled criminal charges against Meek related to images of child sex abuse. Among other accusations, authorities say Meek shared a video showing the rape of an infant. Meek has pleaded not guilty and currently sits in federal custody."

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lightbulbfragment t1_jd6htnw wrote

JFC. I regret my curiosity.

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SsurebreC t1_jd7t2a9 wrote

> Meek shared a video showing the rape of an infant

Just a disgusting reminder that an infant is a child that's between 2 months and 1 year old.

So yeah, some people need to be buried under the jail for this one.

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Formergr t1_jd8xqb5 wrote

I had to stop myself from downvoting you out of pure reflexive disgust, ugh ugh ugh. Awful.

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420trashcan t1_jd7ax4p wrote

Fun fact, it's lede. It's a typesetters term, and it's spelled weird so they know not to actually print that word.

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GetOffMyLawn1729 t1_jd7r0e2 wrote

actually it's spelled that way so as not to confuse it with "lead", as in the metal. In the days of lead type, extra space between lines would be added by inserting thin strips of lead. So you could say "Put 4 extra points of lead after the lede".

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InkIcan t1_jd7z3z6 wrote

That's what I get for using speech to text.

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serial_dabbler t1_jdabnpz wrote

No. Your version isn't wrong either. It can be spelled either way.

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d01100100 t1_jd7xo49 wrote

I believe the reason was that this article is focused upon the relationship of the lead editor at RS with the subject of the original story by Tatiana Siegel in October 2022.

There was a later RS article written by Adam Rawnsley on Feb 2023 that goes further in depth on the charges. It's an article not for the squeamish.

If you're curious you can dig up the Reddit conversations off the original aforementioned article. They chalk it up to the FBI trying to stifle dissent, something both conspiracy and socialists agreed upon.

I also believe this NPR article is trying to show how the editorial curtailing of the original story lead to how this story could be spun to such an extent that when the later article was issued, there just wasn't a big shitstorm surrounding it.

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VioletBloom2020 t1_jda559r wrote

OMG same! I was reading and reading, waiting for it- and what I was reading didn’t make any sense.

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