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> Perhaps Bloomberg's reporters fell for a conspiracy theory this time. According to > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/04/supermicro_bloomberg/?page=3 h
by wolfgke 8y ago
> Perhaps Bloomberg's reporters fell for a conspiracy theory this time.
According to
> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/04/supermicro_bloomberg/?page=3 https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/04/supermicro_bloomber...
"Bloomberg reporters receive bonuses based indirectly on how much they shift markets with their reporting. This story undoubtedly did that. The publisher employs roughly 2,000 journalists, who are encouraged to work together and share information through their Bloomberg Terminals, with many layers of editing and fact checking, and it has a zero tolerance on errors: it is inconceivable that it would publish a story this huge that wasn't watertight."
- fjsolwmv 8y agoRegister does give a source for the first, most interesting sentence.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoThanks, I hadn't spotted the other 1500 times this 5-year-old revelation had already been posted on HN this morning.
- alias_neo 8y agoI do love how predictable news has gotten these days, I only had to see the headline mentioned somewhere to know what its all about and why it's being said. It's almost like reading, a couple of days ago that Riz Ahmed taped over his parent's wedding video with an Eminem song a decade or so ago.