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> Jones was asked to temporarily disable the ability to export data from the dashboard so that it could be verified that the data matched other sources Maybe,
by jonny_eh 6y ago
> Jones was asked to temporarily disable the ability to export data from the dashboard so that it could be verified that the data matched other sources
Maybe, or maybe she knew it wouldn't be temporary and that the given reason was BS. We don't know, and we should therefore take this claim with the same grain of salt that we should take Rebekah's.
- downerending 6y agoI do believe in taking virtually everything with a grain of salt these days. That said, merely disabling export (as opposed to shutting down the website entirely) sounds like an incredibly stupid way to try to censor something, even by the standards of bureaucratic ineptitude. If there were any real smoke there, one could just send a few dumps to interested journalists, etc. And as we've been seeing, a lot of CV data has been pretty crappy, especially the initial cuts. The idea that they were trying to present valid statistics doesn't really seem that far-fetched.
- jonny_eh 6y ago> send a few dumps to interested journalists That wouldn't help if the cover-up is meant to block the daily trickle of bad news.