>> Under the assumption that amazon has decided to astroturf on this niche tech news site
replyEven Microsoft astroturfs here...
Satya Nadella, Microsoft FY2019 Q1 earnings call [1]:
“In fact, this morning, I was reading a news article in Hacker News, which is a community where we have been working hard to make sure that Azure is growing in popularity and I was pleasantly surprised to see that we have made a lot of progress..."
[1] - https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2018/10/24/mi...
there is a stark difference between a division aimed at developers attempting to astroturf on a tech industry (mostly developer) news aggregator and a movie studio.
replyIts a whole industry with hundreds of employees and thousands of bots:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520761
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