alt Hacker News> I wonder what caused that prediction to fail.
A lot of media outlets have been fingering the outage of some data centers due to kinetic action for a worldwide decline in divisive rhetoric, potentially impacting democratic processes.
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spwa4 • today at 6:20 AM
Facebook/Meta openly supporting Bolsanaro and sabotaging Lula probably mattered a lot more. Here's them acknowledging funny business:
https://mronline.org/2026/10/16/meta-acknowledges-the-reduce...
Bassilisk • today at 4:39 AM
If that were true it would have diminished Lula "support" as Lula is strongly preferred by Russia due to his anti-US and anti-NATO stance.
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atoav • today at 5:54 AM
Not everything you'd want to be true, is. Checking makes the difference, you just need to do it.
This has been widely discredited.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9y7l0pm8jkko