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The Washington Post tried to verify the authenticity of the claims made by the blocked article... and so far they have found ZERO evidence supporting the story:
by cs702 6y ago
The Washington Post tried to verify the authenticity of the claims made by the blocked article... and so far they have found ZERO evidence supporting the story:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/14/hunter-bidens-alleged-laptop-an-explainer/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/14/hunter-bi...
This bit, in particular, suggests that the blocked article actually deserves to be blocked:
> The New York Post published PDF printouts of several emails allegedly taken from the laptop, but for the “smoking-gun” email, it shows only a photo made the day before the story was posted, according to Thomas Rid, the author of “Active Measures,” a book on disinformation. “There is no header information, no metadata.” The Washington Post has not been able to independently verify or authenticate these emails, as requests to make the laptop hard drive available for inspection have not been granted.
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EDIT: After some thought, I flagged the OP, because the more we upvote or comment on any story about the original blocked article, the more free exposure it gets -- which is exactly what the author of the blocked article wants. I hope the mods delete or hide this thread.
- codecrusade 6y agoWapo is owned by democratic landlord jeff bezos right? What a joke.
- tick_tock_tick 6y agoI mean they didn't break the story and it's based on something physical I'd be surprised with those conditions if they could "independently verify" anything in <24 hours.
- hartator 6y ago> There is no header information, no metadata. It has been a day that the article is online. We'll have these soon enough. Biden hasn't say this email is not real when asked. Which is a better proof than header information which can be faked as email sending can be done from any email to any email.
- nkurz 6y agoThanks for the explanation. I can half-agree, but think the meta-discussion about the role of Twitter and Facebook in shaping the US politics is worthy of discussion even if the NY Post article turns out to be a wholesale fabrication. You might be interested that I also posted this article [https://blog.erratasec.com/2020/10/yes-we-can-validate-leaked-emails.html https://blog.erratasec.com/2020/10/yes-we-can-validate-leake...] which talks about the relative ease of validating the emails using GMail's DKIM header. Unlike this one (where I think the first two pages of comments are actually pretty good), that one got very few votes and no discussion.
- cs702 6y agoThank you for taking the time to respond :-) Hmmm... I cannot disagree with your reasoning... so I must change my mind. I unflagged and upvoted the OP. I also upvoted your other post. Hopefully this thread won't get too uncivilized!