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Not sure why this is downvoted, Zuckerberg himself acknowledged the legitimacy* of the H. Biden laptop story and that it was mistakenly blocked. Something like
by boppo1 4y ago
Not sure why this is downvoted, Zuckerberg himself acknowledged the legitimacy* of the H. Biden laptop story and that it was mistakenly blocked. Something like "There was a lot of BS going around at the time and we had to make a call on it quickly and we were wrong." It was fairly level headed if I recall.
*to some extent. I know there were people claiming the laptop tied the Bidens into some sort of demon worshipping child eating cult or something, obviously that's a joke.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 4y agoAt the time it happened, I noted that a lot of goodwill tech companies managed to accumulate over the years will be squandered on an election drama. I agree that the post-fact discussion was better, but real-time panic was palpable. Just doing all that stuff in tandem with Twitter moved the story from conspiracy theory to a simple 'they are colluding so it must be true'. It is nothing that an average information analyst would not predict. I can only assume reasonable voices were ignored.
- andirk 4y agoHN is my fave place for intellectual discourse. However, I deleted the last line of my comment before posting: "I expect to get downvoted because HN does not tolerate negative discussion of the American Democratic Party". How a brilliant mind can be so beholden to a corrupt institution(s) (either leading American political party) is beyond me.
- systemvoltage 4y agoLitmus test for high IQ is if one can criticize their own party. Better if done in person, people completely fumble followed by a profound realization.