Oh, please. If I post news online, and it’s not obviously humorous or fictionalized, I don’t need to say “I ASSERT THAT THIS IS FACTUAL NEWS” for any reasonable human being to assume that I intend it to be read as factual. If it happens to be clearly not factual on a very cursory examination, any reasonable human being would assume that I’m either dangerously sloppy or deliberately lying. It’s the “sloppy” one that seems to describe Cory.
