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Re:Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in mothe... by admax88q on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @10:13AM (#18655785)
That doesn't seem like a bad goal. It incentivizes stories that are important to their target market, and provides an easy way to measure that.
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Re:Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in mothe... by piva00 on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @10:42AM (#18656008)
Or you can apply Goodhart's Law[0] and try to picture how wrong that can also go.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

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Re:Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in mothe... by sosborn on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @10:45AM (#18656041)
> That doesn't seem like a bad goal.

Like most sales goals, it seems reasonable. And then you remember that when it comes to pay, some people will do anything.

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Re:Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in mothe... by atoav on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @10:53AM (#18656114)
The thing is – if you have such an incentive and you are faced with the choice between reporting a boring truth or a spiced up lie, you will go for the later. And that has nothing to do with journalism anymore.

It _could_ work – if the editors are espeically on the hunt for bogus stories.

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Re:Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in mothe... by occamrazor on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @11:14AM (#18656296)
This was the opening story on their homepage. There us no way the editors (and the legal department) did not scrutinize it thoroughly.
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Re:Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in mothe... by tertius on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @01:50PM (#18657701)
Just because it passes legal muster doesn't mean it's ethical. And I think that's one of the things that people are calling for.
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