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Peter Ungphakorn
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This is common but lazy use of quotation marks by headline writers. They assume it covers all meanings from a genuine quote to a claim or accusation. Unfortunately that's not how it reads. Should be 'Govt claims PM's accusers are "politically motivated".'
Another example of lazy headline writing. The quotation marks are supposed to distance the headline from the claim, but written this way it doesn't work. It reads like an endorsement

Episode 3 of “the @BBCNews website needs to look much more closely at its headline writing”.

Here👇🏽 the headline is actually wrong.

Here's what she said: “I am not the woman referred to in Charlotte Edwardes’s column” Totally different.

@BBCPolitics

bbc.com/news/uk-politi…
@BBCNews @BBCPolitics In case you don't see the headline that I see, this is it:

bbc.com/news/uk-politi… Screenshot with headline
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Peter Ungphakorn
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Today's arbitration ruling in the case against the EU on Airbus subsidies.

The ruling sets a limit on the impact of US tariffs or services barriers raised in retaliation at $7,496,623,000 ($7.5 billion)

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Peter Ungphakorn
@CoppetainPU
In case you missed it. An important treaty, but with all that's going on right now it won't receive much attention

Signed after a hard-fought battle in the World Intellectual Property Organization, it alters international copyright rules to improve access to published works

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wipo.int/treaties/en/ip…

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