Yes, any account less than two weeks old will have a green name

Yes it is, but what does that have to do with the nature of the comment?

Considering the blatant lies and misinformation being spread in the comment, the fact that it's a fresh, new account makes it suspect.

Couple the two together makes it for a comment that doesn't honestly want to drive good conversation.

It was leading the discussion in a decidedly political direction, which was why I only responded with an observation about the community experience of the account.

It's not even that he's lying or citing bad data. It's the conclusions he's drawing from it that I find suspect. He seems to be closely mirroring the talking points of a certain controversial public figure. A figure who only seems to be bothered by the wholesale corporate exploitation of the working class when it benefits a foreign country.

> Considering the blatant lies and misinformation being spread in the comment, the fact that it's a fresh, new account makes it suspect.

What blatant lies? Everything there looks true, except maybe the employment figures (the US figure apparently includes all people working in the "the iOS ecosystem", which seems totally bogus to me), but that's actually being generous to Apple.

Edit: Just to quickly fact check the other stuff:

> That dictatorship now has imprisoned close to 1 million people in Xinjiang.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/former-inm...

> Shame on you, Sundar Pichai. At least when Google was lead by Erich Schmidt, Google pulled out of China, and didn't bend to the whims of Chinese government.

Google stops cooperating with Chinese censorship in 2010: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jan/12/google-ch...

Censored Google being developed in 2018: https://theintercept.com/2018/08/01/google-china-search-engi...

> Shame on you, Mark Zuckerberg, for continuing to appease the dictator in China, so that Facebook may gain a foothold there.

Zuckerberg shamelessly sucking up to Xi/CCP: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1658272/zuckerberg-h...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/china-s-president-...

> Shame on you, Satya Nadella, for continuing to supply censored search results in Bing. and for not taking a stand against censorship.

Bing censoring Chinese search results: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/11/bing-cens...

> Shame on you, Jeff Bezos. You become the richest man on earth, by allowing pirated, stolen, IP infriged goods from China to be sold on your platform without care

Amazon's counterfeit problem: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/04/amazo...

Thank you for checking facts and sharing citations.