A few days ago, we had all these big sites covering the news about a listing for AC and its Valhalla Edition appearing on Amazon Germany. Truth is, it was a fake, made in order to disclose the low level of profesionalism from several videogames outlets :
- The screen has been reused by about 50 videogames outlets around the world. None of which sourced their article !
- They didn't contact Amazon either to know if the listing was even real in the first place (it was not)
- A simple Google reverse image would have given the original tweet.
- At the opposite end of the spectrum, a small amateur outlet, XboxSquad, handled by passionates has been able to show that the listing was not correct. How ironic !
- Overall, he states that this story shows how most outlets are only interested in your clicks and not delivering information.
Really eye-opening in various aspects and makes you wonder how to properly incentivize reliable informations and punish unreliable media outlets (the fact that NintendoSoup is still sourced by other media outlets is beyond me for example).
- The screen has been reused by about 50 videogames outlets around the world. None of which sourced their article !
- They didn't contact Amazon either to know if the listing was even real in the first place (it was not)
- A simple Google reverse image would have given the original tweet.
- At the opposite end of the spectrum, a small amateur outlet, XboxSquad, handled by passionates has been able to show that the listing was not correct. How ironic !
- Overall, he states that this story shows how most outlets are only interested in your clicks and not delivering information.
Really eye-opening in various aspects and makes you wonder how to properly incentivize reliable informations and punish unreliable media outlets (the fact that NintendoSoup is still sourced by other media outlets is beyond me for example).
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