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I find it hard to believe, that Bloomberg would publish an extremely detailed story involving some of the largest public companies in the world, knowing that it
by krn 8y ago
I find it hard to believe, that Bloomberg would publish an extremely detailed story involving some of the largest public companies in the world, knowing that it is entirely false. The cost of reputation is just too high.
- dkonofalski 8y agoIsn't that the question, though. I don't think anyone is accusing them of publishing information that they know to be false. It seems more likely that their sources are just not as good as believed and possibly have reinforced the details and information through an echo chamber. If these sources are within the same subsection of the industry and regularly exchange information, it may just be that they've been regurgitating information between themselves that somehow coalesced into a "real" story.
- pishpash 8y agoNot to be tin-foily, but it is also possible that Bloomberg has been deliberately fed or seeded with "bad" information -- it doesn't have to be an organic echo chamber. But no, I don't think Bloomberg itself set out to deliberately make a false story.
- dkonofalski 8y agoOf course it's possible. Foreign states have fed much less believable information to work against US interests and a good chunk of the population believes it wholesale.
- late2part 8y agoThey don't have to know it is false. They just have to find their sources credible.
- WillPostForFood 8y agoYou can read this story as a CYA because they overstepped in the first story. The have good details here. But in the Apple rebuttal, they note Bloomberg only had a single source for the Apple claims.