Item — HN Reader

This is an interesting podcast[1] describing the phenomena you're experiencing. At a high level, you're inclined to believe anyone that aligns with your views regardless of intelligence, logic, expertise or facts. It goes into how people cognitavely consume and intercept news.

I would say that I'm personally still open, but I think Apple has done over the years to earn its reputation of trust than Bloomberg. I feel like Bloomberg is going to double down in the next few weeks, but we'll see what happens.

[1] - https://dataskeptic.com/blog/episodes/2018/cultural-cognitio...

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Personally, I feel that Bloomberg is a generally trustworthy source and when it comes to security, Apple is a generally trustworthy company. So there's an interesting juxtaposition here.

I have asked myself (only half seriously) if what we are seeing here is not an attack on Bloomberg instead of Apple or Amazon.

Apparently this isn't even the first cybersecurity story these particular Bloomberg reporters have screwed up though: https://twitter.com/RobertMLee/status/1049617855396933632

Note that the author of the tweet you're linking also believes that these reporters were being honest about what sources were telling them.