Comment by dang | Hacker News Reader

Comment by dang | Hacker News Reader

Recent and related:

--- edit: one thing I regret is not changing the cnn.com URL to the original WaPo reports a few days ago, since they were obviously much better - so I'll add them here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/t...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/08/23/peiter-...

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Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal on whistleblower story - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32565019 - Aug 2022 (82 comments)

Twitter’s former security chief says company lied about bots and safety - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32564630 - Aug 2022 (2 comments)

Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless cybersecurity policies - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32562815 - Aug 2022 (597 comments)

Not so recent, but related:

Twitter shakes up its security team - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30026171 - Jan 2022 (110 comments)

Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25115754 - Nov 2020 (172 comments)

Also related (thread on the departure of Mudge from Twitter)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30026171 ("Twitter shakes up its security team")

Thanks! I've added that one.

Top reply to Parag’s letter is interesting: https://twitter.com/DrTechlash/status/1562211536826863618

Almost makes it look like the same PR people work for both Twitter and FB. Or, these PR tactics are google-able and everyone rips the same template now.

Relevant: dang is a YC employee and not a neutral aggregator. For a balanced perspective, it behooves the reader to consider sources that do not have financial conflicts of interest in the industry being covered.

'dang does nothing to hide his affiliation and is widely known on HN as its primary moderator/curator. One of the tasks he takes upon himself is to provide additional links relevant to the submission as he's done here. If you've got additional links you think are relevant, I'm sure he'd be happy for you to include them.

You're on Hacker News. This entire website has a "financial conflict of interest in the industry being covered", given that the "industry being covered" in this story is "security at one of the largest tech companies in the world".

Further, all dang is doing here is referencing other HN submissions that relate to the same topic. Are you claiming that he's picking and chosing related links based on some form of bias?

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