Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video]

>>lawles+(OP)
There are other links here as well: https://www.404media.co/archivists-posted-the-60-minutes-cec...

>>pavel_+Y2
404media is shadowbanned from HN for nebulous reasons. The mods should really revisit this policy: they've been doing some great reporting recently.

>>tastyf+W3
A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote (404media.co)

  289 points by grahamlee 5 days ago | flag | past | 171 comments

so some slip through.

But: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=404media.co sure has a lot of [dead]

>>defros+la
Don't forget that the mods tried to remove the reference to a16z from the title on that one.

>>UncleM+Jd
I tried to make the title fit the guidelines and the character limit, then changed it when the community explained why it was important for A16Z to be in the title.

Why do people think we're motivated to “suppress” negative stories about A16Z? They've been criticized forever here and we've never had a problem with it. All we care about is whether a topic makes for an interesting discussion on HN.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

>>tomhow+Zd1
To answer your literal question of "why do people think..."

For a while there was a widespread standing principle to not assume malice for actions that could be explained as a simple mistake. If only one person follows this policy, it's great. However, so many people were following this policy that it created massive incentives to disguise profit motivated malice as explainable accidents. We're in the midst of a massive backswing against this.

So, there is very little taste for patience when agents of ycombinator make mistakes that benefit a16z such as accidentally removing them from the title of a negative article, due to the billions of dollars entangling ycombinator with the reputation of a16z. This is not because it wasn't an accident- it's because any culture of patience with this will lead (and has led) to an explosion of copycat whoopsies.

>>Quadma+Ng1
> make mistakes that benefit a16z

Specifically, how does that title change make any difference to A16Z?

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