How a single hack infected the world’s most important operating system.

  • TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Veritasium partnered up with a private equity firm around the time his videos became far more sensationalist and I don’t think that’s a coincidence. His videos have become far more misleading and willing to stretch the truth for views in the past few years, so I simply stopped watching his stuff and don’t trust his content.

    https://www.electrify.video/news/electrify-completes-majority-investment-in-veritasium

    • R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 hours ago

      That’s fair enough. If you lead with this I wouldn’t have commented. I agree his recent videos have been more sensationalist, I just thought this one was pretty good, especially for the non-technical crowd.

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        I’ve found his videos pretty on point in the topics that I’m familiar with.

        I’d need more evidence of misleading information than ‘A popular content creator receives an investment’. That’s not proof.

        It’s not even implied by the evidence presented outside of an implied conspiracy not built on anything other than a press release.

        There may be evidence of foul play somewhere, but it was not presented here.