Hacker News should be a place where we don't settle for the weakest-possible interpretation of things (and the guidelines ask that of us, at least in replies to comments and submissions). Gore didn't say “I invented” or “I created” the Internet. He had been a congressman for 22 years when he did that interview, and had studied at Harvard prior to that. He's clearly not a stupid person and clearly understood the difference between inventing a technology and sponsoring legislation.

It's been a bit of a thing of mine for much of my life to notice likely bullshit in commonly-held beliefs, and to dig a little to understand what really happened or what was really said or meant.

And yes, I have always done this regardless of the political side, including in cases where there was uproar about things Trump supposedly said, including about the pandemic. (For the record, I'm not a U.S. citizen/voter, and I've voted for both sides of politics in the country where I am a citizen/voter, and my bullshit detector has been applied to both/all sides, including whichever one I was voting for.)