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by ipsum2 267 days ago
Typos and grammatical errors are common in journalism nowadays, even with formerly respected organizations like APNews.
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It's crossed my mind that a couple of a certain class of typos in a document has become a signal of authenticity. It's only a matter of time* before we see prompting or even manual editing adapt to falsify that signal.

* before this comment gets a single upvote, somebody will have vibe-coded this

I think they're pointing out that the sentence is symmetric.

"That product saw little adoption" - "and pretty much languished."

"privacy concerns" - "about privacy"

Tautologically redundant is how I’ve heard other professional writers older and wiser than I am refer to this occurrence.
I really enjoy how that phrase is also an example of itself- such a great term!
Department of Redundancy Department
I think it boils down to you get what you pay for. If information is free, it will become same as noise.
And when it's offered for free once, it's then a race to the bottom. People in general don't understand the value of curation nor quality, especially when it comes to information. So it's hard for well-curated high quality information to remain because it costs money to make it.
The article also misspelled her last name.