[Lammy]

I believe at least some part of the story must be true, because nothing else seems to justify the seemingly-coordinated push-back against the story and anyone who didn't want to just accept the claims of falsification. I can't recall seeing that kind of reaction to any story before or since.

e: I take it back, the unanimous denials of PRISM "direct access" felt very similarly-coordinated to the Big Hack denials: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jwherrman/direct-access...

[duskwuff]

> nothing else seems to justify the seemingly-coordinated push-back against the story

Uh... other than the reputational damage to the companies named in the story? A claim that Amazon's servers were actually compromised by China would have a significant impact on their cloud business. Ditto for any of the other companies (allegedly) involved.

[Lammy]

Yeah, that doesn’t make sense to me as justification for the existence of the story.