Stefan Ionescu covered consumer tech before getting pulled toward stories with more at stake. A former geological engineer, he's used to digging past the surface reading, a habit that now shows up in his reporting as much as in his tech writing.
Members usually talk to each other while playing a game, which is why posts carry the credibility of a familiar person rather than an unknown source. It shows why misinformation in gaming communities cannot be understood by counting viral posts alone.
It’s not that New York didn’t do enough to protect its workers due to the lack of precise numbers. It’s just that “enforcement” became more about education. That’s something that doesn’t have a neat metric to track.