HN is censoring news about X / Twitter

4 months ago 2

See the comments on this recent link:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44510731

Someone asks "Why this related post about Grok was flagged?" and their comment is now buried without explanation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44510930

The recent Grok debacle was discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44504709

That submission is now flagged and removed from the front page without explanation. I ask why:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44510889

As of writing this, my comment has a positive vote count (3) and yet it appears collapsed, alongside the dead comments at the bottom of the page.

So, it seems pretty clear that there is an effort to suppress news about X / Twitter on HN. I am not making any claim about what portion of that is intentional manipulation by HN moderators, versus the users themselves triggering this effect by flagging inappropriately. Whatever the cause, the effect is that news is being censored on HN, and this needs to be addressed by HN staff immediately.

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