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0 pointsdang6y ago0 comments

As far as I can tell it copies text directly from this article (and thus probably from others as well) without attribution. Also, it mentions that the investigation was done by other organizations, but doesn't provide any links. That's scummier than usual, so I think we'll merge that thread into this one. The HN guidelines call for original sources anyway.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: I got this wrong—this article was produced by one of those organizations. Please see below.

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yorwba6y ago

> Also, it mentions that the investigation was done by other organizations, but doesn't provide any links.

The New York Times is guilty of the same. Each of the articles mentions that this is a collaboration with other publications, but doesn't link to the other ones. There's not really a single original source.

dangOP6y ago

You're right, and I completely missed that. Sorry! Will try to correct.

Edit: ok, I've merged the comments back into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20335816 and made this one the dupe instead. Thanks for watching out for the quality of HN! Especially when we screwed up.

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