[throwaway346434]

Oof. Having sat in those communities and seeing media narratives - from reuters as well as others - about "reddit attention shifting to silver" despite a lack of that actually happening to the degree claimed, this is disappointing to see promoted.

Objective facts: sentiment has changed, prices have decreased, people have likely lost money.

Its frustrating to see a narrative - and not as far as I know out of the SEC themselves - talking about one particular focus of investigation while ignore other dubious areas, even if they arent technically illegal.

[hans1729]

Yes, Reuter is immensively disappointing in this whole gig, starting with the doxxing of DFV.

The media coverage is absolutely terrible, not only the silver-thing but also the silence on the SEC. It's truly disheartening

[logimame]

Wait, didn't DFV willingly did an interview with WSJ and made himself public? I never thought he was doxxed. (Or is it the situation where he did the interview with anonymity but somehow the WSJ messed it up like the case of SlateStarCodex? From looking at the contents of the interview it really doesn't seem like it.)

[shawabawa3]

Multiple newspapers published his identity before the wsg article

[lasagnaphil]

Oh okay, I understand.

[adrianb]

> media narratives - from reuters as well as others - about "reddit attention shifting to silver"

That was amazing. It took a few weeks of WSB going on GME before the media noticed, and by that time I was sick of how everything on Reddit was about that. And then one morning all news outlets talk about silver and I had seen nothing of the sort on reddit.

This makes me worried the modern reputable media is just an echo chamber, always promoting the same stories with the same views and never investigating anything.

[pjc50]

The media are extremely vulnerable to being fed bullshit in the form of press releases and repeating stories of the form "source said X" without determining if X is actually true (which may be extremely difficult!)