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Some real doublethink going on here, with Bloomberg continuing to insist that supply chain attacks are real, yet seemingly accepting the denials of each company
by gargravarr 8y ago
Some real doublethink going on here, with Bloomberg continuing to insist that supply chain attacks are real, yet seemingly accepting the denials of each company involved. I am really not sure what to make of this.
- passwordreset 8y agoThis is just a suggestion, but it might be useful to stop thinking about news reports as "the news report says X is real and true", because that's not what most news reports actually say. The text used usually reads like: "An unnamed source says blah blah", and "Joe Smith, a retied auto-worker, says blah blah blah", or "In response, a spokesman for Large Company, Inc. says blah blah blah blah", and so forth. Bloomberg (probably) isn't insisting that the story or the denial is true or false. They repeat the facts that other people have said. Often those facts are true; often those facts are false. Thinking about it this way helps me make sense of the topic. Maybe I'm weird.
- kickopotomus 8y agoIt is not that cut and dry though. By publishing this story, they are asserting that the hack happened. They are not saying the attack is possible. They are saying it happened and that halved SMCI's market value. If they are wrong, Bloomberg is going to pay through the teeth for this one.