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Re:Suppression is a bigger scandal than the actual story by jsu32 on Sunday October 25, 2020 @09:48PM (#24892045)
It was really fun to watch half (liberal) Twitter claiming this was disinformation (i.e. false information) and the other half - including Twitter itself - claiming it was hacking (i.e. absolutely true information, albeit one they shouldn't have their hands on).

I feel most people don't care about the facts, they care about their opinions which is now part of their identity. This is not good at all.

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Re:Suppression is a bigger scandal than the actual story by pavlov on Sunday October 25, 2020 @11:30PM (#24892592)
You've got this wrong. The ban on publishing personal information from hacks doesn't apply only when it's "absolutely true". It's about the claimed provenance, not the veracity.

If I made a tweet that reads: "Here's some juicy extracts from jsu32's personal diary, I stole it from their hard drive" — it would fall under Twitter's policy, regardless of whether I ever stole your hard drive or not.

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Re:Suppression is a bigger scandal than the actual story by knaq on Monday October 26, 2020 @12:48AM (#24892913)
There certainly wasn't a hack. At worst there could be a copyright issue, but political stuff is very strongly protected for fair use. The drive legitimately changed ownership, according to the repair contract, after 90 days of abandonment.
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Re:Suppression is a bigger scandal than the actual story by comex on Monday October 26, 2020 @01:38AM (#24893107)
Allegedly.
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Re:Suppression is a bigger scandal than the actual story by thu2111 on Monday October 26, 2020 @05:17AM (#24894214)
Almost by definition information that was stolen via hacking is true, unless for some bizarre reason the victim was privately forging documents about themselves, which nobody has ever alleged.

At any rate, the OP merely observed that people supporting Twitter can't get their story straight: half are claiming it's Russian disinformation (again) and others that it's hacking (but supposedly it's not), and those two narratives aren't compatible.

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Re:Suppression is a bigger scandal than the actual story by chrisco255 on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:34AM (#24893649)
This wasn't a hack. Hunter dropped his laptop off for repair and never picked it up.
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