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Here you go, here's one reason why nobody trusts the mainstream media anymore, -especially- CNN: http://i.imgur.com/1Y0sN6b.png http://i.imgur.com/1Y0sN6b.png

Here you go, here's one reason why nobody trusts the mainstream media anymore, -especially- CNN: http://i.imgur.com/1Y0sN6b.png http://i.imgur.com/1Y0sN6b.png And it's real. https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/785299709342654465 https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/785299709342654465 Mirror: http://archive.is/JBUzM http://archive.is/JBUzM

karmelapple 10y ago
I saw this tweet go around, and although it seems silly to those of us with technological experience, isn't clarifying what all this means a good thing? Perhaps rather than making this a fact check-like piece of media, it would be helpful to simply make a clarification. However, for someone who isn't familiar with tech too much, I think it's reasonable for them to hear a server and acid discussed, and assume acid was somehow poured or ventilated into the machine. It sounds really weird to those of us who deal with technology every day and had familiarity with this story, but I think it's a clarification worth making.
slowmotiony 10y ago
It's really bizarre that they would post this...
- karmelapple 10y ago
  Precisely why is it bizarre? The word "acid" has a clear physical connotation, and the post pointed out that there was software that deleted emails, not some physical process. I don't think it was helpful to be in a fact-check, "this is false" style, but clarifying precisely what happened... that's what news is all about. Please clarify why you think it's bizarre, so I can have a better understanding.
ZeroGravitas 10y ago
Could you explain in detail why you think fact checking this particular false claim from Trump is a bad thing that erodes trust in the "mainstream" media? > Trump, Sept. 5: You see what’s going on with her emails. It’s a disgrace. It’s a disgusting situation where she pretends like she doesn’t know. I mean, she had her emails — 33,000 emails — acid washed. The most sophisticated person never heard about acid washing. Acid washing is a very expensive process and that’s to really get rid of them. > Trump, Sept. 6, North Carolina: But why do you acid wash, or bleach, the emails? Nobody even heard of it before. Very expensive. Just ask yourself. > Trump, Sept. 6, Virginia: How about the acid wash of the e-mails that didn’t mean anything? How about the 33,000 missing e-mails that were acid washed — acid washed. And Rudy was telling me, nobody does it because it’s such an expensive process. OK, 33,000. http://www.factcheck.org/2016/09/trump-pence-acid-wash-facts/ http://www.factcheck.org/2016/09/trump-pence-acid-wash-facts... edit: I'm now reading all the replies to that tweet and further boggling at the people I share my world with. One claims everyone knew what he meant, while another seems to think the correction is that she used "bleach" (which has a high pH) rather than "acid". Another seems to believe NBC are autistic jews to even mention this.

karmelapple 10y ago

I saw this tweet go around, and although it seems silly to those of us with technological experience, isn't clarifying what all this means a good thing? Perhaps rather than making this a fact check-like piece of media, it would be helpful to simply make a clarification. However, for someone who isn't familiar with tech too much, I think it's reasonable for them to hear a server and acid discussed, and assume acid was somehow poured or ventilated into the machine. It sounds really weird to those of us who deal with technology every day and had familiarity with this story, but I think it's a clarification worth making.

slowmotiony 10y ago

It's really bizarre that they would post this...

karmelapple 10y ago
Precisely why is it bizarre? The word "acid" has a clear physical connotation, and the post pointed out that there was software that deleted emails, not some physical process. I don't think it was helpful to be in a fact-check, "this is false" style, but clarifying precisely what happened... that's what news is all about. Please clarify why you think it's bizarre, so I can have a better understanding.

ZeroGravitas 10y ago

Could you explain in detail why you think fact checking this particular false claim from Trump is a bad thing that erodes trust in the "mainstream" media? > Trump, Sept. 5: You see what’s going on with her emails. It’s a disgrace. It’s a disgusting situation where she pretends like she doesn’t know. I mean, she had her emails — 33,000 emails — acid washed. The most sophisticated person never heard about acid washing. Acid washing is a very expensive process and that’s to really get rid of them. > Trump, Sept. 6, North Carolina: But why do you acid wash, or bleach, the emails? Nobody even heard of it before. Very expensive. Just ask yourself. > Trump, Sept. 6, Virginia: How about the acid wash of the e-mails that didn’t mean anything? How about the 33,000 missing e-mails that were acid washed — acid washed. And Rudy was telling me, nobody does it because it’s such an expensive process. OK, 33,000. http://www.factcheck.org/2016/09/trump-pence-acid-wash-facts/ http://www.factcheck.org/2016/09/trump-pence-acid-wash-facts... edit: I'm now reading all the replies to that tweet and further boggling at the people I share my world with. One claims everyone knew what he meant, while another seems to think the correction is that she used "bleach" (which has a high pH) rather than "acid". Another seems to believe NBC are autistic jews to even mention this.