What is HN doing to stop foreign misinformation during Covid-19?

Question

In this short intense time period misinformation will amplify economic changes quickly, we should assume all sites are under some sort of attack.Has HN increased security?

Jugurtha · Accepted Answer

Wouldn't "What is HN doing to stop misinformation during Covid-19?" be better?Foreign, domestic, deliberate or otherwise.

blaser-waffle · Answer

HN is the newsfeed of Ycombinator -- it's right there in the URL -- which is a start-up incubator. They've got a vested interest in promoting their start-ups, and keeping discussions about their former startups as positive as possible.
Like, if they're not making money from adds or in-app purchases (aka reddit gold), then their value is in shaping consensus.
So assume everything on here has some freakin HUGE biases.

mikst · Answer

Sorry, you must be new to the Internet. Everything besides World Health Organisation website (in this particular case) is an opinion here. 99.9999% of the information on the Internet is not to be treated in any other way from the start. Not only you are not supposed to trust HN, as they just folks like you, it is very rude to demand them to work for you and verify facts instead of you.

taf2 · Answer

Ask not what your HN can do for you, but what you can do for your HN

cjbenedikt · Answer

Excellent question.

What is HN doing to stop foreign misinformation during Covid-19?

In this short intense time period misinformation will amplify economic changes quickly, we should assume all sites are under some sort of attack.
Has HN increased security?

Wouldn't "What is HN doing to stop misinformation during Covid-19?" be better?
Foreign, domestic, deliberate or otherwise.

Ask not what your HN can do for you, but what you can do for your HN

Excellent question.