You can make a similar case against any media organization. They all publish true things and false things. They all have biases that highlight certain things that are happening while occluding others.

On HN, we go by article quality rather than site quality. This has been the case for many years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....

I attempted to give a detailed explanation of how that relates to the current thread in these comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38620928

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38618471

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38617464

If you read those and still have a question that isn't answered there, I can take a crack at it.