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Re:Ask HN: Getting Off GMail by jstewartmobile on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @03:22PM (#20277868)
I don't buy it.

The PV video of Gennai had an obvious bias, but her quote looked 100% genuine, and the powers that be are pulling it as fast as they can.

This wouldn't be the first story of SV putting its finger on the scale.

I'd imagine that with Google's legal resources, the unedited footage will eventually see the light of day, and then we will know if this was fraudulently slick editing, or another case of megacorporations run amok.

Re:Ask HN: Getting Off GMail by dublin on Friday June 28, 2019 @12:10PM (#20305812)
EVERY time I'm aware of in the past that there were claims that O'Keefe and Veritas had swayed the story by editing, the unedited video has proven to be exactly what they claimed. I'm convinced they now do this two-stage release (hard-hitting excerpts, then full, unedited video) as much to protect themselves against this very predictable charge as for any other reason...