When we cross-referenced 1.38 million SHA-256 hashes against the DOJ's EFTA servers, we found 892 documents had been deleted and 32 modified -- with no public announcement. The deletions were surgical: not just the PDFs, but every trace of metadata, person links, and OCR text was wiped clean. Only 24 fragmentary records survive. Here's what happened, what's missing, and how you can verify it yourself.
  • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Thanks for the shoutout, it means a lot. This is a subject near and dear to me. Always happy to help. I didn’t expect you to remove it because it did not specifically break any rules, but. . . it is what it is.

    And as long as I have your attention, keep an eye on what comes out of lemmy. org: almost immediately after that list of lemmy. org users I linked to above (all created on the same day, btw) got exposed as participants in vote manipulation, lemmy. org stopped federating vote information, maybe even the same day. So now whenever you try to use lemvotes.org to get info on any comment, post, or user made through lemmy. org it 404’s out unless it’s historical and prior to that defederation of vote info.

    There’s one lone admin over there, and he seems to have a side business in “Display & Video Monetization Solutions” which, nothing against that when it’s aboveboard, but artificial hype is very much a part of that game in general.

    So to me, given all this info taken together, when something comes across the comm that’s fishy, also coming from lemmy. org is a solid strike against. It’s not a crime in itself, of course, just something for you to be aware of when evaluating a questionable post or comment.