December 11, 2015

The lack of punctuation on Twitter hashtags claimed another victim on Wednesday, as The Globe and Mail misread a tweet by Hillary Clinton. In a matter-of-fact correction on today’s edition, the Canadian newspaper apologized for the mishap:

Globe and Mail Ontario Edition

(To be fair to The Globe and Mail, Clinton’s tweet was nothing if not belligerent towards Trump.)

(h/t @sladurantaye on Twitter)

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Alexios Mantzarlis is a recovering fact-checker and tech worker with some experience in governments both national and international. He cares about online information quality as…
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