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Not the most disturbing, but the strangest aspect, is how the truth of the matter kept getting lost and people who had no idea about what had happened held strong opinions.

Makes me wonder how often this happens in other news items.

I do want to know what happened with the tickets and the booth, though.

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Look around this comment thread and you will see the exact same thing.

Didn't expect to be so prescient so soon.

> Not the most disturbing, but the strangest aspect, is how the truth of the matter kept getting lost and people who had no idea about what had happened held strong opinions.

The author quite thoroughly documented the entire ordeal (with screenshots and everything).

I'm struggling to understand how this comment thread is an example of "the truth of the matter getting lost," when we have all the "evidence" of the "harassment," and are merely pointing out what we see?

Because most of the people commenting here seem to have not actually read the article. E.g. so many comments mention /sexual/ harassment, but the article was mostly focused on just harassment in general, and didn't claim that Mark's actions were explicitly sexual.

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