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‘Deeply sinister’: Police testing women who have miscarriages for abortion drugs
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2023
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The article and the events it covers are from the UK. You should probably read the article before commenting on it. I also highly recommend never trusting an Independent headline at face value; they’re infrequently backed up by the body of the article. This is a rare exception.
I've started to make a habit of reading every article I click entirely before reading let alone contributing comments. Now I see social in a whole new lens.. the conversations... Nobody reads the articles.
Omfg the Internet is an allegory for Penthouse
The Independent was that trigger for me in 2016. I kept seeing headlines that were outrageous and fit my perspective. I’d get called on it and have to read the article only to find out it was pure clickbait. Often the article supported the opposite perspective, especially if you followed its sources. I wasn’t used to that, especially from papers of record. Usually blog posts that get big in the tech space don’t make outrageous claims they can’t back up.
I had The Independent filtered on Reddit for years. It’s the only QoL feature I regularly miss from Reddit clients. Once Lemmy apps add domain filters I’ll be back at Reddit client levels of functionality.