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US Rep. Ilhan Omar, a member of the progressive ‘Squad,’ wins Democratic primary in Minnesota (apnews.com)

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[–] takeda@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Off topic, but how is the thumbnail actually picked up? I looked at the article and can't find this specific picture anywhere.

[–] elbucho@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Typically, when links are published to link aggregator sites like lemmy or reddit or whatever, the link aggregator looks for a meta tag marked thumbnail to grab the URL for the image. It looks like this:

<meta name="thumbnail" content="https://path/to/img.jpg">

In this case, the thumbnail tag contains a url to a different picture, and the one used for this link is nowhere to be found, so I’m guessing that when OP created the link, Lemmy cached the thumbnail picture from the provided URL, and then afterwards, AP changed it in their article.

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