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		steve-howard on Feb 3, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reuters totally clueless about the meaning of "hac... I found it funny that the in-text "also read this" spam was about Megaupload. Might be something in my adblock, but it didn't show up any different than the article text and wasn't a link.

hartror on Feb 3, 2012 | [–]

Same but I don't have any adblock on, I think someone had copy and paste fail.

idspispopd on Feb 3, 2012 | | [–]

It turns up from time to time in print publications as well.

ars on Feb 3, 2012 | [–]

That happens all the time when sites republish stuff. They get the plain text to republish, but not any links or formatting.

It shouldn't happen, but it does - a lot.

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