The Daily Beast uses "Hot Mic" in a headline to describe someone saying things with a microphone in a known public place into known records

Hot Mic Catches Republican Saying Trump Is in the Epstein Files
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as opposed to "an apparent error in which a microphone is switched on or remains on, especially without the speaker realizing"

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Apparently they adapted the title of the youtube clip:

“Yeah, I’m sure he’s in there,” Collins said, without providing evidence, according to an audio clip of the exchange uploaded to YouTube, titled, “HOT MIC: Republican caught saying Trump IS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES!”

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This guy thinks they had 100 FBI agents scrub diaper's name from the files because he was a whistle blower? Surely the best way to prove his valiant role in this ordeal is to release the unredacted files, right?

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Is “hot mic” not a commonly known phrase or something? It’s literally in the dictionary.

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He didn't say this and it was accidentally caught by a mic. He just said it into a mic, on purpose. That's not a hot mic (is what OP is saying)

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agreed. it's technically a hot mic, but c'mon

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n. Informal. a microphone that is actively recording or broadcasting, especially if it captures a comment or conversation that the speaker or speakers believed to be private (often used attributively): The reporter was suspended after her profanity was caught on a hot mic.

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Not only that, but they are un-critically quoting the headline on a fucking YouTube video...

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Hot Mike?
Naaaa. Roberto is wayyyy hotter.

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Link without paywall: https://archive.is/KHIUg

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Captcha wall instead... Great...

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Yeah, this is never helpful. I end up just opening in Apple News because I pay for it despite Edgesuite giving me an Access Denied due to my VPN. It’s all a big mess.

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I've never had to solve Captchas to use archive.is before, sorry you were the lucky one. I'll use a different site next time.

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They use it to block those with Cloudflare private DNS users for better server allocation logic or something

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That only lands you technically correct, not idiomatically.

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The best kind of correct!

(I'm with you on this one btw, it's not the meaning they were going for here, they used it for clicks)

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Hot mic means active mic, mic that is on, no?

/edit: Wiktionary agrees with my impression. Hot being on is what it means, while its being used often to indicate unintentional, unknown recordings - labeling it hot to differentiate and indicate expectation.

Its a redundant label, and as such misleading. But not incorrect.

I guess that makes it fit this community. It just isn't clear if OP is referring to that - definition or usage.

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yeah i was referring to it being misleading

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