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Apr 3, 2026 9:00 PM
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ifoundthelight
Probably asked ai
iidky
Not Another Trump Ordeal.
ThatMangoAteMyBabyy
Not Another Trump Ormugawd!
IhopeUgetwhatUvoted4
The US has long believe the world revolves around it.
FortifiedWhine
When I was a kid I assumed it was Nuclear Arms Treaty Organisation, cos in all the James Bond films I watched someone was always up to something nefarious with nukesand NATO was usually brought up.
ParryLost
Night Amplification by Tremulated Omission of radiation
huffnpuff72
I dont think NATO would have any dramas changing the name to avoid that problem in the future. NETO?
ionicseraph
The same idiots who asks why there isn't a WAACP. Ask them what they think the N stands for
drGrafenberg
For real?
Huor
The newspaper of record, ladies and gentlemen.
Schoonbot
The demographic that still reads print loves thier propaganda. Carry on.
AgamemnonsMemes
Clearly not.
IntelligentLake
Soon: Not America Treaty Organization.
Seethreepeeoh
North Algorithm Treaty Organisation
woodworkerf
Nazis Abandon Treaty Organization
lebanks
No Assholes Turd Oligarchs
Fishy820
Bigger question is how has the writer has been reporting on NATO for 20 years!! lol
ElroydIsGone
Wasn't he the author of the famous landmark article "Brexit woes already palpable immediately after the UK left the English Union."
TurnsOut42WasASlightMiscalculation
Article writers don't write the headlines
Dannoboyo
The Op Ed page in the NYT was always sketchy. Now it's on every page.
Ahnolde
Even if it were NA for North Murica, Canada is still a member. Bye Felicia.
ApoliticalServantofLove
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO
StupidIdeaMaschine
Not All Thoughs Organised
ClaudBalls
Not Another Titty Obobliobobobo
IlIIII
What’s with the font size?
OdinYggd
League of Nations was a spectacular failure because even though the US was involved in making it, we ultimately decided not to join it. And it collapsed pretty quickly.
secularink
umm..
SomeGeek75ygh
Sure they do, NATO is the organization that opposes their boss, Putin.
flow3232
Couldn't even Google the acronym, ffs
TheBantamMenace
I don’t think most people who haven’t worked in print newsrooms know this, but the person who writes the headline is usually not the person who wrote the story. Doesn’t excuse this error, but does help provide context
djangojazz
AI does it again!
KnifeKnut
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NooPogodi
Oh it means Not Any Terrible Opposums
BubblesTheFish
><> *handshake* <><
ArcUlfr
In an age where not being wrong about something like that costs you maybe 10 seconds, an awful lot of people are making some very stupid mistakes with depressing regularity.
pekkhum
There is also the possibility that they chose to be wrong to help fuel outrage in a world that mostly reacts to headlines without reading the article. I usually prefer to assume ignorance over malice, but the NYT has made their position as a tool of manipulation very clear, so it remains likely enough.
Isthe4thtimethecharm
They probably are relying on AI to do the final edit.
ArcUlfr
I knew that AI hallucinations could be pretty bad, but usually it gets common phrases like that correct (or so I thought). Most of the mistakes of that nature that I've heard about (disclaimer: I don't use AI) were things like making up court cases and other references that don't exist.
bippityboppitybuttsex
It does not.
Fucking idiots pretending to be smart.... so, here's a weird question, here is a screenshot from the actual article, looks like they fixed it afterwards:
JamieSays
Did I mess this one up?
coughingintensifies
Papers also A/B-test with titles to see which ones result in more clicks. I often see different headlines for the same article when checking at a different time or from another device.
Hurrah for sensationalist clickbait, right? (/s)
bippityboppitybuttsex
Nope.
The print edition had the wrong headline, they fixed it in the online edition.
bippityboppitybuttsex
Also, it got press:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fact-check-york-times-did-032640330.html
Johnsky
Woah. You're open to acknowledging you might have been wrong? You can't possibly be an american.
JamieSays
Born and raised, but being trans I've always been a stranger in my own land.
KellyCrazyCatLadyinTraining
As an American, I laughed out loud, and then I got sad. *hugs*
annonymouse211
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1OHBrdTdteG9rc2x4bjJyNnpiMmZvc2ptdWF4MWI0NTNxYTE3c3djNyZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/kSlJtVrqxDYKk/200w.webp
bippityboppitybuttsex
At the bottom of the article it does say: "A version of this article appears in print on April 3, 2026, Section A, Page 8 of the New York edition with the headline: A North American Treaty Organization Without America?."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/world/europe/trump-nato-iran.html
stryhf
It seems they got the article tagging right...
NKato
But they never properly corrected the title, instead resorting to the acronym instead of saying... North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
These guys are still idiots
mithiwithi
The original headline is meant to be a riff on "how can you have an American thing without America?" So there's no point to the headline once you correctly identify the A in NATO.
bippityboppitybuttsex
NATO is not an 'American thing' it is a European thing with the US being the most powerful member.
A reminder that NATO's underlying principle is consensus, so every member has veto power over most decisions (and when Hungary votes against NATO when/if Russia attacks Poland, I expect Hungary to be expelled).