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@zackwhittaker @GossiTheDog I think aggregation with no vetting is not going away any time soon, unfortunately, and that's ultimately what this is about.

your concern about desensitization is valid and real. however, the issue of cyber fatigue is so vast that I am extremely skeptical that one weird little toothbrush story makes significant impact. Every six months we have a new worst vulnerability ever headline, a huge breach, mass exploitation, etc.

Again, you're totally right to have an issue here! Maybe the best case scenario is that this helps the general reader understand which publications are aggregation factory and which do actual reporting. That would be a good outcome.

I just think any time the outrage goes more viral than the bad story itself, we can all take a step back and consider how much it really mattered