Rather than stating, without data, that Democratic Party alignment led to flagging of the story here on HN, one can look at the numerous overt statements by some of the most active users. These users claim they spend significant time flagging all political stories not tied to computing or science.
replyThese statements are trivially found using https://hn.algolia.com.
Typing “Trump” into that trivially reveals disparate outcomes. Then again perhaps “Trump says Maduro captured” is computing and science to these people. I have no peer-reviewed evidence that they don’t think that so I must admit it as equally likely as anything else.
replyIt is a common error to misunderstand the base rate of an event. In this case, the frequency of media articles about Trump dwarf other political subjects.
replyOr one could assume a vast conspiracy to explain the phenomenon.
False dichotomies like that are easy mistakes to make. Consider Reddit, no conspiracy, and yet overwhelmingly of some opinions. Coordination requiring conspiracies is naïve, but forgivable among novices of epistemology.
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replyI don't recall Brett Favre's scam in MS on HN
replyDid you see any articles about the scam that attempted to educate about fraud prevention generally in the way that McKenzie does?
replyOr Rick Scott's Medicare fraud lmao
replyTrump has pardoned literally dozens of Medicare fraudsters [0] (Lawrence Duran and Philip Esformes are two of the biggest ones, but there are a bunch more smaller ones), and also fired ~20 people who were attempting to investigate Medicare fraud.
replyI haven't seen any HN articles about this, never mind getting to the HN front page twice a day, so I'll take your retraction and apology now.
[0]: https://tennesseelookout.com/2025/04/02/trump-says-hell-stop...
> I haven't seen any HN articles about this
replyOkay, now there is one:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46916593
Maybe you'd want to upvote it?
As the book says, better to light a single candle ...
>so I'll take your retraction and apology now
replyFor what? There's critical anti-Trump articles on HN daily most of them justified.
But not much on Dem crimes.
Are we now required to ignore the majority of trump related crimes just so we can we report an equal number or something?
replyIsn’t that just a case of “reality has a well-known liberal bias?”
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