[reaperducer]

More than 1000 upvotes on a piece of false information[1], on a website where people are well educated and informed

Many threads in HN reflect the tribalism that now permeates society. There are plenty of people on here that will upvote a comment or story simply because it paints Apple in a bad light. Same thing happens to Google, Oracle, and to a lesser extent these days, Microsoft.

It doesn't matter if a piece of information is true, it just has to align with someone's personal-conceived biases.

We have to disabuse ourselves of the notion that we are better than the people who get sucked in by political trolls on Facebook just because we work with computers.

[chasd00]

This was on full display when the early Covid19 studies were coming out suggesting many more infections than what was being counted. It implied changes to thinking and numbers were needed and people came out of the woodwork, with anger even, to discredit anyone who dared agree. Same goes for anyone who dared to consider Sweden's model as anything less than a killing field for their own citizens.

it was pretty disturbing for me, i had held this place in very high regard prior to that experience.