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Re:Facebook policy chief admits hiring PR firm to attack Geo... by creaghpatr on Thursday November 22, 2018 @07:00PM (#18513406)
>Is it not scary to you a Company like FB would under shield on anonymity hire a PR firm to publicly discredit someone? And you don’t take any issue with the idea the later falsely denied hiring the Firm to discredit an individual?

This happens all the time. Theranos literally did this when they hired Fusion GPS for air cover and that’s just one recent example of many. It’s credibility laundering and anyone can pay organizations like Definers that get outlets like NYT and WsJ to publish ‘credible’ scoops

https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2018/03/15/elizabeth-holme...

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Re:Facebook policy chief admits hiring PR firm to attack Geo... by will_brown on Thursday November 22, 2018 @07:11PM (#18513439)
1. Because something happens “all the time” doesn’t make it news worthy? Or concerning/scary behavior.

2. From what you linked it’s not clear Theranos did the same thing (ie hired a firm to dig up dirt on an individual and attack them in the media, got caught and lied about it).

But if Theranos did the same exact thing as FB and what you linked to states that...well isn’t that proof such behavior is newsworthy.

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Re:Facebook policy chief admits hiring PR firm to attack Geo... by cthulha on Thursday November 22, 2018 @07:19PM (#18513481)
> This happens all the time.

That doesn't make it less scary or dysfunctional. It undermines the health of politics and society when this is acceptable behaviour.

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Re:Facebook policy chief admits hiring PR firm to attack Geo... by likeabbas on Thursday November 22, 2018 @07:05PM (#18513426)
>This happens all the time.

That makes it all the more frightening

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Re:Facebook policy chief admits hiring PR firm to attack Geo... by JustSomeNobody on Thursday November 22, 2018 @07:16PM (#18513465)
>This happens all the time.

So is this an argument that the behavior is acceptable?

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