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- ... that an investigation into Motherless.com prompted claims on social media that 62 million men had enrolled in an "online rape academy"?
We should never put a false claim on the Main Page without clearly stating that it is false. Per the article, However, 62 million was the total number of hits the site had received in a single month across all categories, and the 'academy' was a Telegram chat group to which a Motherless user had posted a link
. But in this case, I'm not even sure it would be responsible to mention this on the Main Page as an explicitly false claim. To quote a sourcetranscript cited in the article:
It’s almost like psychic warfare to like tell women that there are 62 million men in a rape academy. And I don’t really blame anyone for like perpetuating that. Just because it’s like, it’s just like how we’ve come to shape norms on the Internet is that people take really spicy bits of information and run with them. And I think like, we all have a responsibility to be better information consumers. But the reality is it’s, it’s a frightening statistic. And so I think a lot of people’s emotions and desire to like, spread awareness of this fake statistic are motivated by like, very real concerns and also a desire to help women. And I think any pushback against this statistic feels maybe like it is motivated by a desire to minimize the problem. But the reality is if you actually want to solve the problem, you have to accurately define and measure and analyze the problem.
So I seriously worry that saying "false" would not be enough to prevent us from further spreading this misinformation. Changing to "... prompted both real and false claims about pro-rape content" might be a solution.
In the other direction, I'm not seeing where that transcript verifies the sentence in the article that the report also hides the connections of the report with anti-porn groups like Exodus Cry
, although due to lack of timestamp I'm just ctrl+fing the transcript so it's possible I'm missing something. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (they|xe|🤷) 07:20, 30 June 2026 (UTC)
- I'm fine with the suggested rewording.--Launchballer 07:52, 30 June 2026 (UTC)
- PInging other people involved with this one: Bogger, MaxBrowne2, Sangdeboeuf, and Epicgenius. The proposed hook "... that an investigation into Motherless.com prompted both real and false claims about pro-rape content?" seems fine to me, but I wonder if there's anything that would make it more interesting. —TechnoSquirrel69 (talk) 17:43, 30 June 2026 (UTC)
- Should probably also ping @AirshipJungleman29:, who queued. I'm wondering if stating the facts would solve the problem, i.e. "that social media misinformation warped a single link to a small Telegram group on a porn site that once got 62 million views in a month into '62 million men in an online rape academy'?--Launchballer 17:52, 30 June 2026 (UTC)
- @TechnoSquirrel69 that alternate wording would be fine with me. – Epicgenius (talk) 18:12, 30 June 2026 (UTC)
- I'm ok with all alternatives above. -Bogger (talk) 20:03, 30 June 2026 (UTC)
- I've switched in the suggested rewording. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 20:06, 30 June 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks, @AirshipJungleman29. I'm belatedly realizing that "real" might not be the right word here. A false claim is still "real" in the sense of really being a claim. The normal antonym to "false" is in fact "true", so maybe that would be better, but it's not a huge deal. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (they|xe|🤷) 20:12, 30 June 2026 (UTC)
- Adjusted. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 20:15, 30 June 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks, @AirshipJungleman29. I'm belatedly realizing that "real" might not be the right word here. A false claim is still "real" in the sense of really being a claim. The normal antonym to "false" is in fact "true", so maybe that would be better, but it's not a huge deal. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (they|xe|🤷) 20:12, 30 June 2026 (UTC)
- I've switched in the suggested rewording. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 20:06, 30 June 2026 (UTC)
- I'm ok with all alternatives above. -Bogger (talk) 20:03, 30 June 2026 (UTC)
- PInging other people involved with this one: Bogger, MaxBrowne2, Sangdeboeuf, and Epicgenius. The proposed hook "... that an investigation into Motherless.com prompted both real and false claims about pro-rape content?" seems fine to me, but I wonder if there's anything that would make it more interesting. —TechnoSquirrel69 (talk) 17:43, 30 June 2026 (UTC)
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MOS:US for the Ryan White OTD –Maltazarian ᚾparley
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- Also goes for an OTD entry tomorrow about B. Anthony Stewart. –Maltazarian ᚾparley
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- Tomorrow's technically should stay as U.S. as the article is so titled and - per MOS: "U.S. in American or Canadian English articles in which it is already established" Mfield (Oi!) 01:21, 30 June 2026 (UTC)
- I did consider that, but the text that wikilink is embedded in is on the main page, and we don't use "U.S." in articles that otherwise would use "US" when we happen to wikilink to an article with a different STYLEVAR, so I decided against bringing it up. There is some ambiguity here, as technically we should go off the main page's STYLEVAR and it doesn't have one, but I assume it would just follow the non-grandfathered/preferred formatting. –Maltazarian ᚾparley
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- I did consider that, but the text that wikilink is embedded in is on the main page, and we don't use "U.S." in articles that otherwise would use "US" when we happen to wikilink to an article with a different STYLEVAR, so I decided against bringing it up. There is some ambiguity here, as technically we should go off the main page's STYLEVAR and it doesn't have one, but I assume it would just follow the non-grandfathered/preferred formatting. –Maltazarian ᚾparley
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- Tomorrow's technically should stay as U.S. as the article is so titled and - per MOS: "U.S. in American or Canadian English articles in which it is already established" Mfield (Oi!) 01:21, 30 June 2026 (UTC)
Done Mfield (Oi!) 01:17, 30 June 2026 (UTC)