[eleventen]

It's so wonderfully fitting that the original story was posted twice and got 620 upvotes while this flies by unacknowledged.

Thread 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46461563 620 points

Thread 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46461578 159 points

[suzzer99]

Like it says at the end of the article: A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on.

[ohmahjong]

At least both of those threads contain a healthy amount of skepticism in the comments