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It also looked suspiciously like he had some sockpuppet upvoters that the spam control missed. When I was there it was at 29 votes after 46 minutes.

But I don't know, maybe HN really is that gullible when it comes to governmental malfeasance.

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No more of the upvotes were from newly created accounts than you'd expect for a story high on the front page. I think users are just suspicious of governments.

Any chance you could restore the link in the original thread? Sockpuppet McFakeAccount deleted it to stop the negative feedback from being connected to his original story. This thread is an attempt to reconnect it, but it's messier than restoring the original.

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