I agree with you that we shouldn't be citing accusations as facts. I do wish that rule was equally applied though, there have been a ton of Ellen Pao articles on HN that say she was the victim of discrimination when in fact she lost her lawsuit and the court found no evidence to support her claims.
I wish the same thing. There is a double standard where the shit can only role down the proverbial hill. As someone pointed out below, https://twitter.com/mjaeckel/status/950446329603461121, shows that lots of the evidence in the lawsuit is "It's perfectly fine if [the left-leaning] do it, but unacceptable if someone else does"
