[matheusmoreira]

No idea why you're being downvoted. Governments the world over propagate disinformation every single day with absolute impunity.

Yesterday I was reading this article about the day the USA almost accidentally nuked itself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash

> The Pentagon claimed at the time that there was no chance of an explosion and that two arming mechanisms had not activated.

> A United States Department of Defense spokesperson stated that the bomb was unarmed and could not explode.

> In 2013, information released as a result of a Freedom of Information Act request confirmed that a single switch out of four (not six) prevented detonation.

Nobody should ever trust a single thing these people say.

[artursapek]

Hacker News downvotes anything that makes them feel unsafe

[mu53]

Or are there groups that upvote/downvote content to groom a certain narrative?

[14]

There are not many sites around that don’t have this problem.

[KirillPanov]

I wonder why that is.