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I knew even before I opened this thread up in my rss reader that it would be flagged (I don’t see a flagged indicator until I open it). The irony is that seein

I knew even before I opened this thread up in my rss reader that it would be flagged (I don’t see a flagged indicator until I open it). The irony is that seeing the almost immediate flagging of lab leak content on here makes me lean even further into the plausibility of the lab leak theory. Simply because of the active censorship campaigns against it. There is nothing in this article that even rises to the level of misinformation. Flagging is an overt attempt to simply hide the eyeballs from it.

grappler 5y ago
My impression of flagging on hacker news is that it's done for stories that have too many parts "political arguments" and not enough parts "hacker news". I never thought it was about whether the story was considered misinformation. Also, there's a more direct story here, which isn't marked as flagged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28644428 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28644428