As an attorney, I know we need to present facts to the public in order to provide transparency. I like that the comments section is gone because I believe people were reading the head line only and then posting comments based on beliefs not facts. I hope yahoo can take a step further in there efforts to defeat misinformation and put a stop to the click bait headlines. The News is the News and Stories are Stories. I get that most people do not know the difference between stories and the news, but news must be brought back to battle misinformation, too much click bait and publishing stories instead of news is destroying the American dream.

Disabling commenting on controversial articles (like the catholic priest comments criticizing Trump for Capitol Hill break-in) is censoring to avoid controversial speech and implicitly gaslighting the audience. You publish misguided or uninformed speech (the poor priest has been gaslit by you and the rest of the media regarding authors of the break-in and he doesn't realize it). You do this to substantiate your gaslighting and to continue the deception and don't allow the public to correct it via comments. Shame on you for this blatant and fascistic manipulation of public opinion. The investigation is not complete, but points to substantial preplanned actions by non-Trump-supporting actors (see e.g. National Pulse). If you were being honest, you would include these clarifications in the article.