Today I saw a post in a forum which said that it was only older people who cared about writing grammatically.  It went on to say that nowadays it’s quite OK to use its instead of it’s and that lots of newspapers nowadays do this.

All I can say is that I’ve never seen a newspaper deliberately use its instead of it’s. When they do, it’s a typo. If you doubt what I say, check on various newspapers’ style guides available online.

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