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psychoslaveyesterday at 9:17 AM1 replyview on HN

Well, let’s say you put the picture of some political figure, and put in highly contrasted red, bold large catchy font, "TERRORIST THAT KILLED MILLION PEOPLE", then below that in barely visible contrast, in tiny discrete letters, "is what this person probably will claim to be against".

This whole sentence technically will be correct, 100% guarantee, whatever this person actually even said or think.

From a propaganda point of view, framing the elements of language is even more important than what the statements actually states to be true or possibly true.


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dist-epochyesterday at 9:32 AM

nice slippery slope you manufactured there - what if Reuters becomes Daily Mail

what framing are you talking about? they are literally quoting a company.

please explain what Reuters should have done here. Should they have added in parentheses: (editor note: we don't agree with Anthropic calling this an "attack")

Is that what you want? News outlets giving their opinion and moral judgement on company quotes? I mean, Fox News/CNN do have a large following, so there is clearly a market for that.

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