> While I agree with your guess of "failure of automated tools", the streams being back up is only partially helpful; much of the damage is done, and it will further polarization because more people now feel persecuted.

If people react to a glitch that way, I'd argue that the damage had been done before the glitch.

> If people react to a glitch that way, I'd argue that the damage had been done before the glitch.

True, a few years ago I had clearly cut them slack and today I feel like a jackass for being so naive about it back then.

It is not irreparable I think, and I don't think of Google as a comic supervillain, on fact in some ways they are way better than everyone else.

I do not however cut them any slack anymore like I used to.

Lacking trust isn't really damage. The "glitch" that can suppress information and live streams that effectively warrants suspicion in my opinion. You simply have to believe Youtube here. Why did it match the content? Certainly because someone fed it with parameters.

I hope you - and every other HN reader - realizes that "normal people" don't realize most of the shit running this whole grand experiment we call the Internet, and especially social media, relies extensively upon automation.

A lot of "normies" think there's someone actively at a computer, doing all this stuff.