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Good and evil is always relative to ones position.

This is a PR response to former FB employees posting/blogging in recent weeks that FB is bad and they wished they had not done what they did.[1] This is strictly a counter PR move FB had to make.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chamath-palihapitiya-former-fac...




A minimization of the issue through relativism, lack of objectivity (perpetrated through the omission of the most relevant details) is certainly what Facebook hopes.

> This is a PR response [...]

There comes a time when there is a need for change, words only serve as a mean to manufacture consent.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

A fallacious consensus is not what the community needs, nor is in Facebook long term interest.




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