• Wander@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Misleading title? “Reddit claimed…”, no, others claimed, reddit has not commented

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      It’s not misleading it’s just written in a passive voice.

      If you read the whole sentence it’s fairly clear that BlackCat is the subject that is doing the claiming. There’s room for making it more clear but it’s not misleading as written.

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        Yeah, I wouldn’t call it misleading, but it’s poorly written for sure. Active voice would be clearer and more succinct, e.g. “BlackCat claims to have hacked Reddit, threatens to leak data”

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          My guess is op (or whoever wrote the title) wanted “reddit” to come first to grab people’s attention. Definitely poorly written though.

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      Can be read as either “Reddit has claimed” or “Reddit was claimed”, but “and it has threatened” clarifies it is not the former.

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    I doubt they actually have been. I suspect this is the excuse they’re going to use to enforce normalcy t oreturn. ‘Oh all those subs? that was a psyop from blackcat. We de-platformed their mods to ensure that any influince is gone.’

    tips tinfoil hat
    But seriously. paranoia is a bullshit disease.

    • aphonefriend@lemmy.ml
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      Sure but unhinged users don’t look good to investors. Imagine if a place like 4chan tried to IPO?

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      Reddit’s week appears to have gone from bad to worse, as AlphV (aka BlackCat) has claimed that operators broke into Reddit’s servers on February 5, 2023, and took 80 GB of zipped data. Furthermore, Reddit has been contacted by BlackCat, once on April 13 and again on June 16, with no response and no attempt to find out what was taken.

      The hack happened before the api thing.