The use of the technology may be political, but I would not call this a political article. I was surprised this made it to the front page too at first but as I read on, it ended up being a really interesting article detailing fairly specifically how social media tech is used to engage in harassment, attack people for voicing an opposing political opinion, alter public narratives on important divisive events, etc. It's probably the most plain explanation of how this process works and how social media tech accelerates it I've read to date.

What I can at least say is that HN's approach to this has been pretty stable for years now, and we do our best to practice it even-handedly.

If anyone wants to read about what the approach is, see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....

This particular issue has become so emotional that careers and relationships were ruined just by taking the wrong side. Because of that, I imagine most HN folks rationally steer clear of any public discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38562946