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[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago

It’s impossible that they didn’t know what they were doing.

It's absolutely not impossible.

It's irresponsible and stupid, but it's absolutely not impossible. People and systems can be smart, but often they are very very dumb.

That said, I wouldn't be shocked if nobody could be bothered to remove it from a target list under the idea of claiming it was an accident or something.

But do I think it's impossible the people putting it on the target list didn't know? Not at all. (But do I think it was likely there wasn't someone who knew? Also yes)