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Reading the article, I took sympathy with the Keybase team. As a dev working at a relatively large software company, I commonly see the smallest issues causing users to knee-jerk and claim conspiracy to harm them. Of course, this headline is shocking, and many probably upvoted it without reading the article, or having any context into your software.

Is there any precedent to getting posts like this (blatant lies) removed from HN? I will report the post, but this article has the potential to be highly damaging to your business, even if it has zero truth to it.



The post appears to have been flagged and is no longer visible on the front page.

Honestly I don’t know if it’s better to hide it so it doesn’t do more damage, or to change the title so people who already saw it can see it’s false.

I actually can’t ever recall a story on HN that was so highly upvoted and damaging yet unsubstantiated. What a crappy situation.




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