A lot of people, like a friend of mine, have put their entire life savings in tesla stock when was rocketing to the moon during covid, because they were bored of crypto and were worshiping Elon. They have the most to loose from this stuff, so my friend spends the morning bus ride to work arguing on Twitter and other social media with people why tesla is the best and any any evidence otherwise is fake news or tesla shorts trying to manipulate the stock. Poor guy.

It could be that such an army exists on HN as well that abuses the flag button to protect the image of the company and their investment. Just a hypothesis.

I'd be curious if dang has some analytics on this.