Who can be relied upon to substantiate her claims (particularly if there is no lawsuit) ? Surely not Uber itself or its so called independent advisors.

To see this coming from a novelty account is hilarious.

by "types of things" I mean speculation of shillage/astroturfing as to discussions on HN, not the content of the articles themselves. Those are two different issues, and to conflate them means we can't discuss them at all.