[president]

Very odd article. This author is trying a little too hard to poo-poo the Intercept article but has lost the plot. The reveal here was that the US government has the ability to shape and influence what people think on private platforms. Yes, maybe this has been known to people in the government watchdog space but I highly doubt the average US citizen knows. This has a direct impact on the Democratic process yet the author doesn't think this is even a little bit interesting?

[tptacek]

The whole point of this article is that nothing of the sort was revealed. The article specifically and repeatedly falsifies claims made in the Intercept article to that effect, as well as pointing things out like the Intercept citing fuzzy draft printouts of documents that are publicly available to create the impression that they leaked.

Masnick (who I'm not a fan of) was even more specific about this on Twitter, where he claims that literally every factual assertion about monitoring and suppression in the Intercept article has now been refuted. Not most of them, not the gist of them, all of them.