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5 days ago: Lyft gaining on Uber as it spends big on growth (sfgate) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11509461

Today: Lyft's Nice-Guy Strategy Leaves It Struggling to Catch Uber (nytimes)

Confusing world.

They are both propaganda pieces. The first was paid for by lyft, the second by Uber.

PG wrote an essay about this type of thing, but I can't seem to find it right now

Yup, I thought it was worth pointing it out. re: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Why don't journalistic ethics require you to disclose when a propagandist basically wrote your piece for you?