Ask HN: Are there bot manipulations on HN?

Given that during the last month:

A) Two of the most important scientists actually the most given the h-index, wrote articles that sound the alarm for existential risks for humanity and societal collapse

and

B) both articles went up really quickly on the first page and then very quickly on the 4-5 page with many upvotes but apparently with many flags (flagging the highest h-index computer scientist to be clear)

I refuse to accept that HN as a whole gives greater significance to how go-libraries work or how to configure apache httpd articles than those 2 Turing award winners telling us all that we may die, the only possible and rational solution is that for reasons unknown to me there is systematic and rapid flagging.

P.S I am talking about articles from Bengio and Hinton that circled the world and media except for HN where they got buried.