Re:Rebekah Jones' firing the Covid clickbait the media dream...
by downerending on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @05:35PM
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I do believe in taking virtually everything with a grain of salt these days.
That said, merely disabling export (as opposed to shutting down the website entirely) sounds like an incredibly stupid way to try to censor something, even by the standards of bureaucratic ineptitude. If there were any real smoke there, one could just send a few dumps to interested journalists, etc.
And as we've been seeing, a lot of CV data has been pretty crappy, especially the initial cuts. The idea that they were trying to present valid statistics doesn't really seem that far-fetched.
Maybe, or maybe she knew it wouldn't be temporary and that the given reason was BS. We don't know, and we should therefore take this claim with the same grain of salt that we should take Rebekah's.