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Admitting you're wrong while insisting you're still right

Admitting you're wrong while insisting you're still right

How not to own your online mistakes.

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Damian Penny
Jun 24, 2023
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This week, Canadian journalist Rachel Gilmore took a break from the “disinformation” beat to recreate the scene in Bowfinger where Eddie Murphy counts the number of times the letter K appears in a script, divides by three and concludes that the script says “KKK” hundreds of times.

Gilmore later deleted the Tweet, but still insists she’s correct anyway, because reasons:

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