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Why do these articles always have to mention Russia, fake news and the 2016 US election? I've noticed this pattern a while ago and it's always somewhere in the

• tzahola 8y ago
  Because they live in a bubble where these are part of their folklore.
• ggm 8y ago
  because peter thiel
  • ggm 8y ago
    oh, and because bezos and the washpo
• okmaybeyesno 8y ago
  Because Trump winning is the real issue behind all of these articles. There would be no "Big Tech" backlash (or a lot less of it) if Hillary had won.
  • tonyedgecombe 8y ago
    It started before then and it exists outside the US as well.
    • steve_musk 8y ago
      People outside of the US are aware of what happened, and Russia has been targeting other countries elections as well (France, Germany, etc.).
      • zeth___ 8y ago
        And no one took it seriously. The only targets that people were worried about were PLCs in power plans and other things that go boom.
• steve_musk 8y ago
  I think they are the the most visible symptoms of a disease that has been growing for the past decade or so. They were a wakeup call to a lot of non-tech people on how much power social media/big data can have.
• Pica_soO 8y ago
  What a crappy useless article. I sincerely doubt it was written by anyone honestly searching for solutions to the named problems. Reading it feels like having a priest going through your life trying to craft "sins" from everything you broke when life was moving fast. The only person this is helping is the priest of course- it does not solve any problem, it does not stabilize anything. Makes me wish there was a way to warn follow up users of wasted time on HN.