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  • Elon_Musk [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Judge buys Rittenhouse lawyer’s inane argument that Apple’s pinch-to-zoom manipulates footage

    The lawyer claimed Apple has ‘artificial intelligence’ that manipulates footage when you pinch-to-zoom

    https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/10/22775580/kyle-rittenhouse-trial-judge-apple-ai-pinch-to-zoom-footage-manipulation-claim

    • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      He’s accused of killing two people.

      Off the topic of the article, but what the fuck is this writing? He isn't accused of killing two people. He did kill two people. That's a thing that happened. He says he did that. Everyone else says he did that. Nobody ever said he didn't kill two people. His argument is, "Yes, I killed those two people, and it was cool and good." :joker-gaming:

      • AntipastoAktion [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        It's newspaper speak. The following isn't a defence of it, just an explanation:

        Legally speaking, newspapers can't make a definitive statement as to what happened - this opens them up to a huge can of worms should the defendant in a case be found not guilty, wrongfully convicted, etc. Legally speaking, newspapers have to maintain the faux neutrality where they dance around shit but never say it: "Alleged to", "accused of", "said to have", etc.

        It's cowardly, but c'est la vie with the press. Naturally, if they were to start coming down on one side or another, the shitbird R*ddit types would start to clutch pearls and cry about bias and stuff, because what libs care about most is "unbiased just the facts ma'am" reporting.

        • FreakingSpy [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Cop kills innocent guy = biased

          Guy with no active warrants dies during alleged police-involved shooting = not biased

        • evicerate [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          Sure in part. I'd wager that threats from advertisers to stop buying ads is playing a significant role.

          EDIT: Coming back to suggest everyone go read some newspaper articles from each preceding decade. There's good and bad but my perception is there were actually a lot more "just facts" being reported in the past. Problem was those facts support the viewpoints of the left so they had to be softened and made more ambiguous to keep the waters muddy and the public uninformed