[nonameiguess]

Actually, this is an even bigger one after working on classified intelligence projects. Being able to watch in real time what is actually happening in some place a news reporter is speculating about and get wildly wrong makes you despair to the point of wondering what they're ever right about. It's even worse to come on a place like Hacker News and see the kinds of wildly wrong things people believe or speculate on, which is doubly frustrating because you can't even legally correct it or even say you know they're wrong.

[teddyh]

I assume that you’ve read what Daniel Ellsberg had to say about the effect of having access to such information?

<https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/02/daniel-ellsbe...>

[bombcar]

That doesn’t bother me as much when people get exceptionally easy to verify completely open facts wrong. If they can’t even bother fact checking to the point of a simple google search, why should I trust anything else in the article?