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Fact check on this brand new account?
by ericd 6mo ago
Fact check on this brand new account?
- nujabe 6mo agoAre you asking someone to fact check publicly available information for you ? Even NYT reported this
- ericd 6mo agoTraveling with kids on spring break, I don’t have time to read all war related news, and it tends to set off my propaganda account alarm when someone registers a new account to drop a bunch of assertions on such a politically divisive topic. So I was asking whether someone could confirm things like “The whole CENTCOM is blind basically, as well as Iron Dome which relied on these radars - all blind now, in addition to long-range early nuke detection to protect CONUS is also blind.” There’s a good reason new accounts are colored green.
- the__alchemist 6mo agoNew account that only has politics-adjacent posts; worth being skeptical.
- Ms-J 6mo agoIf you spend a moment to verify the info that is the fact check. No one can do the thinking for you.
- ericd 6mo agoDid a quick search, didn’t see confirmation that they’re blind/that all radars had been knocked out. Was asking whether others who know more about this topic than me would confirm.
- Ms-J 6mo agoYou did a reasonable check in my opinion. Perhaps if you had said that you already did search I wouldn't have written the last part. Also if I had an answer to your question I would say it. Hope you are able to find the answer.
- refulgentis 6mo agoThis is the second time in 2 weeks I’ve seen a comment like this on HN. 37 years old. Been on here 16 years. Incredibly odd to me. Just announce “can someone else tell me if this is true?”
- ericd 6mo agoThat’s what I was doing, because I don’t think assertions like “CENTCOM is blind” should just sit out there without evidence.
- refulgentis 6mo agoThen go get some! It adds nothing but spam when you to take time from your busy day to tell us what to do
- ericd 6mo agoUsually it’s on the person posting assertions to justify them, and looks like they’ve edited in a NYT link since then.
- serf 6mo agothat's true about assertions, but blindly saying "Fact check!" is still an attempt to offload a wished-for effort onto other people while simultaneously sowing seeds of discernment and distrust into the topic. What happens when someone yells "Fact check!" at absolutely true things constantly? It erodes confidence. That's why "Person yelling fact check" isn't a typical or generalized role in normal discourse. Yes, it's good to correct the incorrect. How does one do that typically? A rebuttal. A supposed 'deferment to experts' on the internet is worth next to nothing, just a way to paint yourself a bit more altruistically while producing FUD.
- ericd 6mo agoI asked if anyone could rebut it. Normally I'd do the work myself, but I'm not very up to speed on this stuff and I wasn't in a good place to do a bunch of research, and someone who's been following it more closely could probably do a better job pretty quickly. The comment smelled like a possible propaganda account to me, making what I thought were some pretty wild claims, and the commenters that were there were piling on because tribalism, so I was trying to act like an antibody in HN's immune system against nonsense, and flag it. Sorry if it sounded like a demand, it was probably too terse. But look at the account's comment history since registration a few hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=bijowo1676 https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=bijowo1676
- fsckboy 6mo agoI read the source he listed and it doesn't say any of that
- ericd 6mo agoAh thanks, I think that was added after I commented.