[mycologos]

Bengio and Gebru have very different public personas -- Bengio doesn't seem to have any Twitter presence at all -- and I think HN is a lot more likely to give the benefit of the doubt to somebody who relatively silently does ML research than to give benefit of the doubt to somebody who is very actively confrontational (perhaps for good reason) on Twitter.

[sudosysgen]

You're using benefit of the doubt in a way that indicates that your conclusions are muddled by your personal beliefs on the matter.