> I guess the headline has been changed? The HN title says "illegally drills wells" but the article now says "prepares to drill".

Unrelated to the topic here, but does anyone else get pissed when news sites change articles, without any indication, without any differences and/or old version linked somewhere?

I've sometimes read the article, had a whole argument with someone, where they quoted something from the article that completely changed the meaning of the first version of the article and what I was arguing about. With more and more sites blocking archiving services (archive.org etc.), it's even harder to find the original texts, some existing for weeks or even months before being changed.... it gives me a total "Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia" vibe.

▲

JohnFen 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> when news sites change articles, without any indication, without any differences and/or old version linked somewhere?

I take that as a strong indication that the news outlet is not to be trusted.

▲

perpetuallunch 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How do you know you’re not gaslighting yourself?

Maybe the article never changed, it always read how the other person interpreted it.

You read it through your filters and took something completely different than what it said.

I’ve seen this happen heaps. Even with articles where I’ve been able to prove it hasn’t been edited, and books too.

	▲	gwerbin 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No news sites change headlines and edit articles all the time. Often there's a "last updated" date on the article and it can be days or weeks later than the original posting date. The last-updated date is better than nothing, but without a changelog it's very hard to know what version of the article you or anyone else read at any given time.