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Wow, I don't mean to issue an ad-hominem attack... but I do not consider anything from NY Post legitimate, I'd even venture to say NY Post is a tabloid owned by

Wow, I don't mean to issue an ad-hominem attack... but I do not consider anything from NY Post legitimate, I'd even venture to say NY Post is a tabloid owned by News Corporation, and surprised that this is on HackerNews.

1_player 6y ago
Sadly, as more people flock to this site, it's becoming less Hacker News and more like Google News. That seems to be the vast majority of stories submitted by OP, and the clickbait and inflammatory titles tend to rise to the front page.
prasadjoglekar 6y ago
The NY Post has a well known conservative bias, but that doesn't make their reporting illegitimate. You can disagree with their opinion pieces, but the factual reporting (in this case - that there's a lawsuit against Twitter) can be objectively checked. Also as NYC'er, my take is that a lot of their opinions are quite accurate and correct.
j_walter 6y ago
Saying you don't consider ANYTHING from the NY Post to be legitimate is admitting you have personal bias against a news site because they lean one way politically. Why not read the story, see the evidence and decided yourself? If you go to some place like Twitter that you find credible, then you won't ever see this story. A lot of people are talking about the Hunter Biden laptop story giving them a bad rep, but we now know that he is in fact under investigation for Tax Evasion and it could be in part to emails found on that computer (at least the ones that were published talked about income from sources that were likely not reported). Not saying the case is tied to that laptop since we don't know, but it could be.
tzs 6y ago
A better submission would have been to the Business Insider story on this that BI published yesterday [1]. BI has a much better reputation than the NY Post, and BI had the story a day before NY Post. [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/minor-lawsuit-twitter-explicit-video-court-2021-1 https://www.businessinsider.com/minor-lawsuit-twitter-explic...

1_player 6y ago

Sadly, as more people flock to this site, it's becoming less Hacker News and more like Google News. That seems to be the vast majority of stories submitted by OP, and the clickbait and inflammatory titles tend to rise to the front page.

prasadjoglekar 6y ago

The NY Post has a well known conservative bias, but that doesn't make their reporting illegitimate. You can disagree with their opinion pieces, but the factual reporting (in this case - that there's a lawsuit against Twitter) can be objectively checked. Also as NYC'er, my take is that a lot of their opinions are quite accurate and correct.

j_walter 6y ago

Saying you don't consider ANYTHING from the NY Post to be legitimate is admitting you have personal bias against a news site because they lean one way politically. Why not read the story, see the evidence and decided yourself? If you go to some place like Twitter that you find credible, then you won't ever see this story. A lot of people are talking about the Hunter Biden laptop story giving them a bad rep, but we now know that he is in fact under investigation for Tax Evasion and it could be in part to emails found on that computer (at least the ones that were published talked about income from sources that were likely not reported). Not saying the case is tied to that laptop since we don't know, but it could be.

tzs 6y ago

A better submission would have been to the Business Insider story on this that BI published yesterday [1]. BI has a much better reputation than the NY Post, and BI had the story a day before NY Post. [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/minor-lawsuit-twitter-explicit-video-court-2021-1 https://www.businessinsider.com/minor-lawsuit-twitter-explic...