Circumstantial evidence aka people jumping to the most outrageous conclusions about emails that they don ' t have the full context of . Hold the phone . they do have the full context of those emails , they are all dumped in their entirety , it is not like they are being quoted out of context and only partially or something . Are they outrageous conclusions ? That once again sounds like a very subjective judgement to make . They are certainly unproven and speculative conclusions , and there does appear to be a deficit of people keeping this in mind what with all the real life harassment supposedly happening . The only reason there ' s anything worth reporting on is it ' s led to harassment of people in real life . Have you actually looked at the massive amounts of circumstantial evidence that suggest something is going on here ? I find it hard to imagine you could seriously claim there ' s nothing even worth commenting on after having seen it . so you actually think there ' s a possibility that the reporters at the new york times are covering up a kid raping ring ? I don ' t know . I think it is very strange that given the facts of the situation , a mainstream media organisation is willing to stake its reputation on the line by flat out stating it ' s false , without addressing any of the objections at all , in concert with all of the other facts about the social network which is targeted in these investigations . I guess that reduces to yes because you just asked me if I think it ' s possible , rather than how probable I think it is . Yes , I certainly think it is possible . I think what is more probable is that they have simply not looked into it at all , and have assigned it the status of complete fiction based on their links to the social network in question . The same as I might if somebody told me a friend of mine was a child raping psychopathic murderer and gestured frantically at a supposed raft of circumstantial evidence , when I have good reason from personal association to doubt the claim . That doesn ' t mean I ' d be right , any more than they ' re right . They ' re unabashedly liberal and prohillary so why not right ? If you don ' t acknowledge the fact that social networks like each other and look out for each other ' s interest , you ' re just kidding yourself . That is not a partisan observation , it is a human observation .