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Well, fortunately Hacker News doesn't employ the same "fact checking" service as Facebook or YouTube. There was a very important article on what to do if pulle

• VBprogrammer 5y ago
  That sounds reasonable to me. Except perhaps in the most unusual extreme circumstances, treating a British police officer with everything up to shear and utter contempt is likely to lead to nothing more than a stern talking to. While I'm sure we only hear the worst of the American police force, I'm still not confident that anything but absolute and total cooperation is a safe approach.
  • bencollier49 5y ago
    It came about as a result of people with fake police lights committing assaults. The advice in the UK is to carry on driving and pull up in the nearest possible public place, like a petrol station.
• Pyramus 5y ago
  Do I understand you correctly that the occurrence of false positives is more damaging than the distribution of misinformation? It's easy to say it's all black or all white, as a matter of fact we live in a world that's different shades of grey. It turns out that social media is the perfect vector to spread misinformation and it's costing lives today. Where do you draw the line?