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by BearhatBeer 1028 days ago
HN has promoted stories just like all other big corporate media sites. You can usually see them languishing in the list with very few comments, people are great at identifying and skipping inline ads disguised as legitimate content. Every single day there are at least a dozen of these stories here.

National Geographic is owned by Disney, news-tainment with a social mission.

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No doubt plenty of publications are trying to promote their content on HN, but it's our job (the mods, the software, and the community) to make that not happen, except when the articles are genuinely interesting, in which case they belong here.

I think Brajeshwar is a legit HN user and not a stealth agent for Disney.