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The Guardian - UK
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Has the Indy been smeared?

The Independent jellybean
The Independent ... web of lies?

Much excitement at an apparently scandalous URL on the Independent website above a story about a jelly bean which has a vague resemblance to Kate Middleton. Alas the vagaries of the Indy site mean you can type in pretty much whatever you want into a URL and it'll still work. Here's the original, less exciting version (we think). And here's another. The Indy's digital high-up Jack Riley explains: "It's a feature, not a bug – at least until your rivals try to smear you with it." Which just goes to show – one man's feature, another man's bug.

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