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What's amazing is how strongly people believe their own and others' speculation without any evidence. Look at what happened after the Boston Marathon bombing.
by gk1 6y ago
What's amazing is how strongly people believe their own and others' speculation without any evidence. Look at what happened after the Boston Marathon bombing.
- ta17711771 6y agoPeople discovered the perpetrators ties to the FBI? Nah, definitely not what you meant. But it should have been.
- voisin 6y agoCan you provide context for those of us unclear on what you are referring to?
- dleslie 6y agoNot the person you responded to, however: https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2017/04/09/tamerlan-tsarnaev-fbi-informant/ https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2017/04/09/tamerlan-tsar... It shouldn't be surprising to find that bad people sometimes turn out to be under the observation of, or even interacting with, law enforcement.
- aaron695 6y agoIt was years ago. If it's a problem people would have moved to a better example, not a years old case. OSINT is a thing. It's also pretty amazing. It is something HN can't do though. Smart people let conspiracies rise to the top and fear making a mistake by correcting them. The Reddit/Boston Marathon meme is a gate-keeping meme on OSINT. Don't lynch mob ever, but also don't fear intelligent speculation.