Any headline that ends with a question mark can be answered by 'no'.
Betteridge's point was about editorial practice: if the reporting supported the claim, the headline would assert it. The question mark marks an absence of evidence.
In practice
- "Is this the end of the office?" was published in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.
- A headline asking whether a common food causes cancer is reporting a study that found it might not.
- Further reading
- Wikipedia
- Subject
- Communication & Media
- Essay
- The folk laws of argument and attention