Surprised this was not posted yet.
Bottom line, Reddit sources a whistle blower saying that youtubers were shilling with the nvidia boxes in the background.
TPU ran with the article and it blew up in their face. A GN thumbnail was used, and Steve was rather pissed about it.
Apologies were made, but it was indeed very crappy journalism. Glen Beck style response of "I am not saying that, I am just reporting what others said" only made things worse in their comment section.
It seems the lesson was learned on pushing this style of yellow journalism. TPU is still a good site and they just made a mistake. Still rather amusing reading through the comment section, though.
https://www.techpowerup.com/260456/...lacements-alleges-whistleblower?cp=7#comments
Bottom line, Reddit sources a whistle blower saying that youtubers were shilling with the nvidia boxes in the background.
TPU ran with the article and it blew up in their face. A GN thumbnail was used, and Steve was rather pissed about it.
Apologies were made, but it was indeed very crappy journalism. Glen Beck style response of "I am not saying that, I am just reporting what others said" only made things worse in their comment section.
It seems the lesson was learned on pushing this style of yellow journalism. TPU is still a good site and they just made a mistake. Still rather amusing reading through the comment section, though.
https://www.techpowerup.com/260456/...lacements-alleges-whistleblower?cp=7#comments