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His employment at YouTube doesn't seem relevant to the story. Feels very clickbaity to put that in the headline (unless they're implying working at YouTube is s
by profmonocle 7y ago
His employment at YouTube doesn't seem relevant to the story. Feels very clickbaity to put that in the headline (unless they're implying working at YouTube is somehow connected to the attack, which I don't get from the article.)
- hellofunk 7y agoIt’s not even in the headline, it was just added for the hacker news link!
- ThrowawayR2 7y agoThe bio blurb from the article states "On his LinkedIn page, Koffi states that he is a Stanford-educated software engineer at YouTube and previously worked at Microsoft." There are a lot of developers who read HN; perhaps somebody who will happen across this article knows him?
- StreamBright 7y agoWhat do you expect from Buzzfeed?
- happytoexplain 7y agoSurprisingly competent writing, actually.
- StreamBright 7y agoTotally: https://theintercept.com/2019/01/20/beyond-buzzfeed-the-10-worst-most-embarrassing-u-s-media-failures-on-the-trumprussia-story/ https://theintercept.com/2019/01/20/beyond-buzzfeed-the-10-w... https://www.buzzsprout.com/164767/1046783 https://www.buzzsprout.com/164767/1046783
- finnthehuman 7y agoshrug This is standard practice for "the news." You're probably keying into it this time because of goodwill towards Google and/or a "one of us" connection to the subject of unflattering news.