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The title should be "Why bbc reads Hacker News comments to get ideas for its next article." I could swear I just read a discussion on HN (just hours ago) in response to an article about Amazon getting flooded with fake reviews. Some suggested how they write fake reviews for money and how one could monetize fake reviews. Then here comes this BBC article. Coincidence. I think not.

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The recent article posted here was actually a link to the previous BBC article:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47941181

For reference the discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19669898

Well I guess its not all that bad if, at least, the article is following up on points of interests collected from responses to a former article.

I noticed that too. Particularly articles based on reddit and HN posts/comments. Maybe it's because those two are the primary social media platforms I use or maybe those are popular with media workers. The one that comes to mind recently was the last blockbluster article from The NYTimes ( I think ). It featured prominently on reddit and then a few months later, there was an article about it. Also, I noticed a lot of content from reddit in movie and tv show dialogues. I'd be watching something and a dialogue would remind me of a reddit post or comment and then I'd think, I bet the writers of the show uses reddit.

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