Greenwald: Yesterday, Journalists Spread a Significant Lie All over Twitter

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To the people repeatedly killing this topic: Please provide your reason for doing so and let's discuss our differences as opposed to shutting one-another out.

>Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You are asking people to break guidelines.

This piece is outrage porn. Greenwald just rants and gets people riled up, but there's nothing of substance here, he's just pantsing random people. It doesn't gratify any hacker curiosity, it's tightly coupled to politics, and it's just more of these "Twitter wars" pieces that I'm seeing more and more these days, where people siphon content off Twitter, act like it's a huge war, and it's literally just a handful of literal "Who?" type people.

You don’t think a critique of the accuracy of reporting is relevant to the HN audience? The fact this misinformation was spread by a reporter responsible for outing disinformation is even more relevant.

I’m at the opposite side of the political spectrum from Greenwald, but calling out crappy journalism is something anyone can get behind. I’m glad someone is doing it because usually bad reporting just gets forgotten.

Bad journalism, whether by general incompetence or malice usually gets promoted.

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