It's probably too much of a stretch to merge all these, because many comments are about specifics of those posts, and the ones that aren't are kind of generic and so maybe not worth merging anyway (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).
The Intercept article on it has a thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767807
It's probably too much of a stretch to merge all these, because many comments are about specifics of those posts, and the ones that aren't are kind of generic and so maybe not worth merging anyway (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).