If it turns out that the coronavirus did escape from a lab in Wuhan, Twitter is going to owe ZeroHedge an apology for automatically flagging every link to their site. In fact they probably already do.pic.twitter.com/BIfpOl3RPP
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Imagine if when HN banned a user, they also banned links to their site. That would either be a ridiculously draconian punishment, or would imply that there was something wrong with the site. If we assume Twitter is not ridiculously draconian, they're implying the site is bad.
(In the case of spammers, HN mods often do simultaneously ban a user and their site. But in that case they do mean to imply there is something wrong with the site.)
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Right and in that case the ban is behavioral; they wouldn’t owe an apology just because the spammer’s claims that their product reduced belly fat turned out to be true.
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HN mods ban spammers' sites because they're offtopic. It doesn't matter whether their claims are true or not.
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@paulg, Zero Hedge is a well-known disinformation outlet backed by Russia to conduct their influence operations, sow distrust and divide us. See: 1. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR2200/RR2237/RAND_RR2237.pdf … 2. https://www.mediebedriftene.no/siteassets/dokumenter/rapporter/kf-report-final2.pdf … 3. https://euvsdisinfo.eu/report/nato-announces-war-policy-against-russia-the-alliance-has-revoked/ … 4.https://newrepublic.com/article/156788/zero-hedge-russian-trojan-horse … -
In short, it is the Wall Street version of Infowars.
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