Jesus Christ, this blog post posits one of the most blatant and comical strawmen I’ve seen in awhile. The author seems to think the only kind of crisis (“crisis

Jesus Christ, this blog post posits one of the most blatant and comical strawmen I’ve seen in awhile. The author seems to think the only kind of crisis (“crisis”, as the word is used in the headline of the recent NYT investigation) Facebook could face is one that involves a drop in users. Because the NYT purportedly provides little evidence of such, the author asserts “the whole thing seems imaginary: is there an actual crisis, outside the media narrative?” The article the author references in his intro is talking about the PR crisis and internal conflict that blew up when Alex Stamos spoke out against FB’s lackluster response to a “Russian infestation”. When Sheryl Sandberg is said by multiple witnesses to have screamed “You threw us under a bus!” at Stamos, it is reasonable to think that FB had massive internal strife, unless the author believes the NYT fabricated the evidence of this conflict, which he provides no evidence of. The lackluster user growth is said by the NYT to coincide with this strife, it is not claimed by the NYT to be the crisis. Does the author believe that the only crisis a tech company could possibly face is declining usage?