[mach5]

he did do fact checking, with people he had previously worked with at New Yorker

https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/seymour...

[runnerup]

They fact-checked "salinity-matched C4"? My god they're terrible.

[HybridCurve]

"The American explosive devices needed to be camouflaged in a way that would make them appear to the Russian system as part of the natural background—something that required adapting to the specific salinity of the water"

This was the most ridiculous part. I can't think of a reason they would prefer to use an explosive charge in a position visible to inspection.

[bhk]

Acoustic impedance of seawater varies with salinity.

[tptacek]

Then they're apparently not very good, are they?

[stefan_]

Hersh, fact checking:

https://twitter.com/grodira/status/1626150758017015809