> Can I really trust the NY Times to correctly report on this? Short answer: yes. > They have every interest to see Facebook, which increasingly acts as a gat

> Can I really trust the NY Times to correctly report on this? Short answer: yes. > They have every interest to see Facebook, which increasingly acts as a gatekeeper to traditional new sites, to look and be as bad as possible. Long answer: that line of thinking is at the root of a lot of conspiracy theorizing, and it's got all kinds of flaws. For instance: you assume "they have every interest to see Facebook...look bad," but what about their other interests? You don't seem to have considered those.