• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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      27 days ago

      Yes, it does.

      rarely is any individual component of a citation strictly necessary in finding a source.

      I could find out this is from x.com by searching its text, by searching its user handle, by seeing the ‘x.com’ at the bottom, by recognizing the UI, by knowing about the “Readers add context” functionality, etc.

      If we’re cool with discussing the contents of a neo-Nazi website, then we’re cool with directly attributing the neo-Nazi website as the source of those contents.