Upvoting by itself is handing pitchforks. It's an article in techcrunch whom only care about heating things up just to get as much page views as possible, and they'll write many more articles about the subject until HN and other social outlets stop upvoting and sharing.
When only one side of the story is presented, it leaves everyone to piece it together and look at what was presented critically. If we just take whatever anyone says at face value when they aren't disclosing everything, we are definitely going to make unfair decisions