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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics
This is a story about social media technology and a fairly deep and documented look at how a specific group is using this technology to spread their version of propaganda and harassment. The use of the technology may be political, but I would not call this a political article. I was surprised this made it to the front page too at first but as I read on, it ended up being a really interesting article detailing fairly…
I submitted it partly for those reasons and partly because it explicitly mentions SV VCs on both sides of this issue. There's a lot of implications for would-be founders who might adhere to particular public or private ethical standards.