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Re:Apple leaves Facebook offices in disarray after revoking ... by fbrsrchthrowawa on Thursday January 31, 2019 @01:06PM (#19047064)
> source: several friends working at Facebook, and reading public tweets of Facebook leaders

The people I know at Facebook have been resorting to whataboutism (everyone is doing it, look at the Google app doing the same thing, for sure Apple is also hiring market research firms who do the same thing, why aren't you concerned about AT&T/Verizon, etc etc)

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Re:Apple leaves Facebook offices in disarray after revoking ... by warp_factor on Thursday January 31, 2019 @01:22PM (#19047228)
Whataboutism seems to be the go-to fallacy used by Facebook leaders.

See for example the ex CSO deviating the discussion to Apple privacy concerns in China: https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1090918043969114112

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Re:Apple leaves Facebook offices in disarray after revoking ... by ryandrake on Thursday January 31, 2019 @03:54PM (#19048746)
To be fair, whataboutism is rampant here too, on Reddit, and basically any forum with company fans. Any time a “Company A does something unethical” article comes up, people will always come out of the woodwork to defend with “Well Companies B and C do it too!”
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