The commenter isn't arguing that they're the same: > That said, this really doesn't address either the Cambridge situation, or the fact that Facebook themselve

The commenter isn't arguing that they're the same: > That said, this really doesn't address either the Cambridge situation, or the fact that Facebook themselves allowed the Obama campagin to pull demographic information in violation of their own polices... The sentence is essentially "this doesn't address A, nor does it address B", which requires that A and B be different.