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kyrra on July 23, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: William Shatner reviews Facebook Mentions

There are a lot of Facebook employees on HN, just like there are a lot of Google employees here. Those employees will do some level of astroturfing. Unless HN prevents us from voting on topics where there is a conflict of interest, it's hard to keep the bias out.

Kiro on July 23, 2014 | [–]

Why would employees vote up negative articles? I think you misread what HBSisBS said.

bitJericho on July 23, 2014 | [–]

Employees vote up anything related to their employer.

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