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Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"

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724 points simonw | 1 comments | 11 Jul 25 00:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.374s | source
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chambo622 ◴[11 Jul 25 03:15 UTC] No.44528105[source]▶
Not sure why this is flagged. Relevant analysis.
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matsemann ◴[11 Jul 25 06:10 UTC] No.44528856[source]▶
Anything that could put Musk or Trump in a negative light is immediately flagged here. Discussions about how Grok went crazy the other day was also buried.

If you want to know how big tech is influencing the world, HN is no longer the place to look. It's too easy to manipulate.

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mkl ◴[11 Jul 25 08:35 UTC] No.44529689[source]▶
Anything that triggers the flamewar detector gets down-weighted automatically. Those two trigger discussion full of fast poorly thought out replies and often way more comments than story upvotes, so stories involving them often trip that detector. On top of that, the discussion is usually tiresome and not very interesting, so people who would rather see more interesting things on the front page are more likely to flag it. It's not some conspiracy.
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1. timmytokyo ◴[11 Jul 25 16:26 UTC] No.44534082[source]▶
I might be more inclined to believe you if Elon-related posts were being flagged across the board, but they're not. Just yesterday, the Grok 4 launch video was on the front page, and the associated comments were full of flamewar content. Yet that post didn't get flagged -- presumably because it was a launch video favorable to Elon's interests.

There's a clear bias -- either on the part of the flaggers or on the part of HN itself -- in what gets flagged. If it has even a hint of criticism of Elon, it gets flagged. That makes this forum increasingly useless for discussion of obviously important tech topics (e.g., why one of the frontier AI models is spouting Nazi rhetoric).