That’s interesting, as that would be the arrow I feel most confidently about. EA grew pretty explicitly out of Singer’s Giving Pledge and Giving What We Can book, and Will MacAskill’s (his student) networking with finance and tech bros. (That isn’t to say the tech bros weren’t just exploiting the idea for their own benefit.)

The rest of the arrows, I agree, it seems plausible to me but I have no hard evidence

Ok that’s good to know! Thanks!

My understanding (happy to be corrected) is that archive.ph is an archive.today mirror https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/417269/archive-today-started-including-malicious-ddos-code-on-its-site-what-should-we

Thank you, changed to upvote

I don’t trust archive.ph for security reasons. Can you just correct the original link? If not, no worries. I only commented to explain why I downvoted.

Link doesn’t work?

Israel is almost certainly involved in this - either through pure fabrication, “opposition research”/digging up dirt, or some combination. But its also true that powerful men do shit like this all the time, and it isn’t automatically made up because it is someone we are ‘rooting for’. I feel like this is all the more reason why these prosecution teams need to be spread over several people, both so that if/when someone actually does do something shitty, or when someone is framed for doing something shitty, they can step aside with no delay or questions raised about the prosecution.

That being said, even if these accusations were/are true, what difference does that make to prosecuting Benjamin Netanyahu? They’re completely unrelated. It’s like saying labor unions are bad because Cesar Chavez was a rapist. Whataboutism.