Hacker News Reader

The Intercept is doing great work. The media needs to be shamed for their blatant lack of integrity.

There is no evidence at all of any lack of "integrity", here. This was simply a stupid mistake. That's it.

That "mistake" aspect is addressed in the article.

Multiple sources make it unlikely it was "mistake". It was almost certainly disinformation. The "mistake" was running with unverified information.

Consistently making "mistakes" that go in one direction indicates lack of integrity.

> Multiple sources make it unlikely it was "mistake". It was almost certainly disinformation. The "mistake" was running with unverified information.

When multiple sources agree, it's not unverified—it's a deliberately spread lie.

> Consistently making "mistakes" that go in one direction indicates lack of integrity.

Consistently getting lied to in one direction implies that the people spreading these lies have a specific ideological goal in mind.

Why do you disagree with the evidence presented by the intercept? It seems to me that there was an intent to misinform the public, either by multiple sources deliberately feeding the wrong information to multiple news agencies or the news agencies misrepresented how many independent sources had verified the information.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com