The article was shit, but for a complete failure of editorial process like that…
Hmmmm, this smells. I have a suspicion that it’s was apart plan of getting IrishTimes to post a opinion piece and then expose it.
Am I just gone paro altogether or does the “admission” feel a bit like face saving by the fake author now they’re rumbled?
There are no tweets from before the article was published, but the account was created in February 2021 Can your @ be changed on twitter because if not, then that’s pretty good evidence for the author being a hoax as they claim
“It’s the drama Mick, I love it”
actually kind of impressive and sad that one of our greatest media outlets was fooled by a gmail address
I have to say it’s pretty funny to see a load of the clowns who were frothing at the mouth over the original !SJW woke madness! article because they believed it to be real now pivot to the angle that it being fake somehow serves the same point.
Jennifer O’Connell needs to go. This is a fucking embarrassment, and she was clearly never cut out for the job anyway.
Give it to Una Mullaly till the end of the season.
This whole thing is embarrassing.
So is this a 4chan troll or something?
Should read “The Irish Times fake fake tan article”.
Personally I’m saddened as well. Pained, a bit, even.
Tripe is easier to stomach when divided. Chop it to bits, it’s not so bad.
I don’t understand is she referring to her own article about the problematic tan being divisive tripe or is she referring to something else. Is she criticizing ai generated articles? Was this tweet supposed to through people off the idea that this “person” and their articles are whole both ai generated tripe.
Gives credence to my theory than Fintan O’Toole died in 2018 and all his new articles are just markov-chains rehashing his work.
Just goes to show that facts and research have little place in modern journalistic and media outlets.
This will be discussed on Newstalk during Anton Savage show which is on until 11.
Morto!
I wonder is this really down to sheer incompetence at editorial level or just being blinded because of a fanatic identity politics ideology ??
Irish Times are awful suckers at trying to emulate those nauseous, Guardian type society and culture opinion piece articles.
Can someone eli5 what happened here?
I genuinely wonder how nobody tried googling her before publishing the article. I’m constantly looking up peoples’ LinkedIns that email me lol
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An AI bot can still have a Twitter.
Skynet? That you?
Hopefully someone gets fired over this.
The article was shit, but for a complete failure of editorial process like that…
Hmmmm, this smells. I have a suspicion that it’s was apart plan of getting IrishTimes to post a opinion piece and then expose it.
Am I just gone paro altogether or does the “admission” feel a bit like face saving by the fake author now they’re rumbled?
There are no tweets from before the article was published, but the account was created in February 2021 Can your @ be changed on twitter because if not, then that’s pretty good evidence for the author being a hoax as they claim
“It’s the drama Mick, I love it”
actually kind of impressive and sad that one of our greatest media outlets was fooled by a gmail address
I have to say it’s pretty funny to see a load of the clowns who were frothing at the mouth over the original !SJW woke madness! article because they believed it to be real now pivot to the angle that it being fake somehow serves the same point.
Jennifer O’Connell needs to go. This is a fucking embarrassment, and she was clearly never cut out for the job anyway.
Give it to Una Mullaly till the end of the season.
This whole thing is embarrassing.
So is this a 4chan troll or something?
Should read “The Irish Times fake fake tan article”.
Personally I’m saddened as well. Pained, a bit, even.
Tripe is easier to stomach when divided. Chop it to bits, it’s not so bad.
I don’t understand is she referring to her own article about the problematic tan being divisive tripe or is she referring to something else. Is she criticizing ai generated articles? Was this tweet supposed to through people off the idea that this “person” and their articles are whole both ai generated tripe.
Gives credence to my theory than Fintan O’Toole died in 2018 and all his new articles are just markov-chains rehashing his work.
Just goes to show that facts and research have little place in modern journalistic and media outlets.
This will be discussed on Newstalk during Anton Savage show which is on until 11.
Morto!
I wonder is this really down to sheer incompetence at editorial level or just being blinded because of a fanatic identity politics ideology ??
Irish Times are awful suckers at trying to emulate those nauseous, Guardian type society and culture opinion piece articles.
Can someone eli5 what happened here?
I genuinely wonder how nobody tried googling her before publishing the article. I’m constantly looking up peoples’ LinkedIns that email me lol