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>> This "anomaly" caused hundreds of millions... It also produced a large quantity of nonsense. WAPO kicked that off with speculation of "sabotage." [1] By t
by cnnsucks 10y ago
>> This "anomaly" caused hundreds of millions...
It also produced a large quantity of nonsense. WAPO kicked that off with speculation of "sabotage." [1] By the time that stuff had finished ricocheting around the echo chamber it was SPETSNAZ snipers. Today WAPO has finally grounded out it's "Russian's hacked the US power grid" fiction. [2]
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12617990 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12617990
[2] https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/12/31/1533245/washington-post-retracts-story-about-russian-hackers-penetrating-us-electricity-grid https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/12/31/1533245/washington-p...
It would be nice if Elon could take a few minutes and install some grown-up editors at his paper. It's turning into a tabloid.
* Oh dear, I've mixed up my celebrity billionaires... Yes, Elon would have to get Bezos to fix the paper.
- aristus 10y agoAre you perhaps confusing Jeff Bezos with Elon Musk? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post#Jeff_Bezos_era_.282013.E2.80.93present.29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post#Jeff_Bezos...
- duskwuff 10y agoMind that Bezos also has his own aerospace company -- Blue Origin -- so it'd in fact be in his interest to report negatively about SpaceX. (If you subscribe to the theory that he's personally interfering with WaPo's editorial choices, which I do not.)
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