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francois.barbier [soylentnews.org] writes:

MODS/EDITORS: English is not my first language. Feel free to edit. Also a textbox for this kind of message to eds would be nice in the submission process.

I tought it would be interesting to report this soft news:

A quote [danstonchat.com] on the French equivalent of bash.org [bash.org], danstonchat.org [danstonchat.org] (originally bashfr.org [bashfr.org]), appears to have made the news around the world.

At first, Metly buzz [meltybuzz.fr] posted an article about the quote. Other websites picked it up, and soon enough, important news websites around the world (en [google.com], fr [google.fr]) and other websites (i.e. reddit [reddit.com]) were talking about it.

Although personnally, I don't mind light-hearted news from times to times, this kind of reporting from dubious sources without any background checking is a little disturbing. What do you think?

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