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>“Feel a bit cheated,” Reddit user “legalbeagle1966” said after a Washington Post reporter told him Claudia was likely a fraud. A week earlier, he’d commented on her photo that she looked “pretty sexy and perfect.”

Imagine making a horny comment on reddit and then a week later a reporter messages you about it.

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This is why your usernames should always be ones that reporters would think twice or three times before using in the news.

Username checks out I guess

And shares your username, which in some cases can be linked to other services just doing some googling.

The quality of the journalism is so bad that the screenshot of the reddit post has the username removed, but there's a link to the post.

Plot twist: "legalbeagle1966" is also an AI chatbot. (it's probably not, but their entire profile seems to be only to reply with "cute" and "pretty", so it kind of is?)

They know better than to be horny on main

That's a way to avoid legal issues.

Basically, embedding the raw Reddit/Instagram/Twitter/whatever post risks that the poster deletes the post, and your article lacks context now. To avoid this, you can screenshot the post - but that can risk violating anti-doxxing laws, particularly if the poster decides to delete the post and the poster is not a media-relevant person. So, making a screenshot with the username and profile picture redacted, while leaving a link to the original post is the safest way.

Interesting. Thanks. I don't understand why they quoted some comments then, I guess they were authorized by the users.

If you don't want your posts to be public, don't make them public.

Dirty glasses and the subject matter (and the skinniness of the font) made me not see the 'L' the first time I read this and snickered (then felt silly).

I wrote this story. And yeah, I was glad so many people responded. People can surprise you; many are happy to talk if you approach them with actual interest and curiosity about their thoughts. Only one told me to f off. Hetter ratio than I've had on other stories, to be honest.

That doesn't seem so bad? When I used to use reddit I'd sometimes see a conspiracy theorist nutjob getting roasted over the desperate comments in their public history. Like someone trying to join a discussion carrying an open backpack full of porn magazines.

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