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		afavour 10 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shi... My point about verification is simply that if the BBC had independently verified it’s true then they wouldn’t use the quote in the headline. They’d just say taken control without quote marks, because it wouldn’t be a quote.
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huurtehoog 10 days ago [–]

My point is that they always use quotes when quoting even if it is verified by them to be true.

Reporting discourse is different from reporting fact, and I do not know the BBC for reporting unverified discourse or facts.

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