[petegrif]

How can we be confident that some of us on this forum are not trolls working to discredit the story?

We can't be.

[akvadrako]

It seems very likely at least some commenters are paid trolls. If you were running a $1m disinformation campaign for either side, wouldn't you put assign a few sock puppets to hacker news?

[softawre]

That's exactly what a troll would say!

Have some vodka, American friend.