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Reporters Without Borders sues X (www.voanews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 9 hours ago (16 children)

The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders on Thursday announced that it is suing the social media company X, accusing it of spreading disinformation.

After Reporters Without Borders, or RSF, discovered that it was the target of a disinformation campaign this past summer, the Paris-based group filed 10 reports of policy violations with X, formerly known as Twitter.

Since none of the posts in question have been removed, RSF opted to sue the company in French courts “for its complicity in disseminating false information, misrepresentation and identity theft,” the group said in a statement.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (13 children)

Ok maybe a very stupid question but

The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders on Thursday announced

Isn't that gramatically incorrect? Shouldn't it be "The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders announced on Thursday"?

I see this kind of writing a lot in news articles so surely it's not actually wrong, but that's not how I was taught English writing.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

It's a bit stilted and no-one would speak like that (at least without sounding pretentious), but it's not bad grammar.

Also, shame on the moron that downvoted you for asking a question.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

I really don't see why you would think this.

Sooooo, Carl, on Thursday, said that...

Completely normal thing I would expect to hear.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago

Unnatural to me, that sounds.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

To be fair, you've added commas which makes it a parenthetical phrase. But yeah - people do speak like this in real life; technically, I should have said no-one speaks like this in non-impromptu speech without sounding stilted.

"Carl said on Thursday" is definitely more idiomatic (to my BrE ears, anyway) than "Carl on Thursday said".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, I'll agree, without any pauses it's less natural and it's more of a "buying time to think" thing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago

Yeah just depends what you're emphasizing. It could be that Thursday is particularly important so it gets moved up to the second piece of info delivered

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