The Social Security Administration's chief data officer has publicly blown the whistle, alleging DOGE put hundreds of millions of Social Security records at risk of compromise.
Because the journalist can’t state as fact that the database is vulnerable, they’re not an expert in the field. They quote someone who claims that. That’s called good journalism.
Oh? So explain why the claim about the live data being uploaded isn’t in quotation marks? And instead, why the one disparaging comment about the security of cloud storage solutions is in quotation marks?
My bet? Because they don’t want to piss off the owners of the storage solutions, and thus don’t give a crap about the whistleblower.
Edit with another example of an article with multiple claims where only one is quoted:
Because the journalist can’t state as fact that the database is vulnerable, they’re not an expert in the field. They quote someone who claims that. That’s called good journalism.
Oh? So explain why the claim about the live data being uploaded isn’t in quotation marks? And instead, why the one disparaging comment about the security of cloud storage solutions is in quotation marks?
My bet? Because they don’t want to piss off the owners of the storage solutions, and thus don’t give a crap about the whistleblower.
Edit with another example of an article with multiple claims where only one is quoted: