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The Breitbart watermark makes me very suspicious, I would treat it as probably worthless until we see more reliable sources.
by p1necone 8y ago
The Breitbart watermark makes me very suspicious, I would treat it as probably worthless until we see more reliable sources.
- tropo 8y agoWhy? It's no different from the logo on a TV network news video feed. It's just a news agency trying to make things painful for competitors trying to steal a story without credit. If not for Breitbart being censored (fitting this story...) by Hacker News, the original article might have been linked: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/10/09/the-good-censor-leaked-google-briefing-admits-abandonment-of-free-speech-for-safety-and-civility/ https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/10/09/the-good-censor-le...
- gugujbh 8y agoSo basically HN is subverting copyright laws because of misguided moderation principals. Way to go.
- shittyadmin 8y agoThey're definitely not the most reputable news source and many of their opinion pieces definitely step into fake territory, but I think outright falsifying an entire document like this would be a very extreme move, even for them.
- batiudrami 8y agoMore likely that someone else falsified it and they didn't fact check correctly. But Google's statement appears to confirm that it's real.