Who are finding these “ pro publica studies” and who benefits? How does your average person in HN who is prone to have issues from student loan debt, rising healthcare costs, or cost of living going to benefit from these?
Are you also going to make the claim that nobody is buying those gummies?
Definitely the people being tricked into buying gummies would benefit from knowing they don't work and that they shouldn't spend money on them would benefit.
Not every post needs to be solving world cancer. Plus the point of HN is entertainment.
I don’t know but vast majority of people I know are worried about COBRA payment post layoff or how to put together mortgage payment after layoff or if you are not so lucky how to find affordable childcare while both parent working while managing down payment or qualifying for mortgage with 6% interest rate etc. They aren’t worried about some right wing website trying to getcha. Maybe my social circumstances are different but that’s just from anecdotal experience.
I don’t know about propublica but Media tends to underestimate how flimsy the thread where the balance is hanging for the social order while being busy covering these right vs left bullshit. As recent riots in France and other places show, it’s rather thin.
> Who are finding these “ pro publica studies” and who benefits? How does your average person in HN who is prone to have issues from student loan debt, rising healthcare costs, or cost of living going to benefit from these?
It's a worthwhile question and I would answer this way. Where most national news desks all run the same 7 headlines, ProPublica tends to bring more new topics to the table. This particular topic isn't novel; just less covered.
I have a positive example of PP reporting; you might appreciate it. An early PP story reported on how campaign ads heavily fund news orgs covering elections. It seems a significant conflict of interest and it's gotten little discussion before or since.
When news orgs were first forced to be transparent about campaign ad buys, most outlets released the data in pdf images to hamper tracking of ad buy dollars. PP setup a site to crowdsource (I was one) converting those PDFs to data. The data got converted and the ad buys got released as intended.
Who are finding these “ pro publica studies” and who benefits? How does your average person in HN who is prone to have issues from student loan debt, rising healthcare costs, or cost of living going to benefit from these?