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Re:Here's the Email That Could Cost Mark Zuckerberg Half of ... by brown9-2 on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @10:39AM (#2437381)
This is precisely what I am referring to:

The emails don't read 'fake,' writes Henry Blodget

Felix Salmon at Reuters agrees. "The emails Facebook says are fake don't seem that way to me."

Why does this matter? How it "seems" or "reads" to online commentators is irrelevant. What are these opinions based on - gut feelings?

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Re:Here's the Email That Could Cost Mark Zuckerberg Half of ... by lotusleaf1987 on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @10:49AM (#2437414)
|Why does this matter? How it "seems" or "reads" to online commentators is irrelevant. What are these opinions based on - gut feelings?

The reason it matters to most is transitive trust. Most people trust Reuters/Business Insider as more authoritative than themselves so if Reuters and BI signal that they are suspicious, then the public will be. If people begin to lose trust in Zuck, then they lose trust in FB then...

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