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Yes. Obviously they don't want to leave this growing billion dollars market. How could anyone rational think otherwise? Why hasn't any journalist paused for a s
by vntok 5y ago
Yes. Obviously they don't want to leave this growing billion dollars market. How could anyone rational think otherwise? Why hasn't any journalist paused for a second and questioned this?
The treatment of this litteral fake news really has been the perfect case one could draw against the state of news today. How many publications have run this with a title akin to "Breaking: Facebook to leave Europe because of interdicyion to prey on our data"? I counted more than 10 in my EU country, all 1st tier or so called.
Facebook should sue each and every newspaper that ran a false story about them without applying basic fact-checking or even basic logic.
- hoffs 5y agoBut this "clarification" post just continues same story. They "don't want to leave" but they still want to transfer data out and if Europe doesn't allow them who knows what might happen. There's no direct wording that they might leave but there is very much an indirect implication from Facebook similar to that, which might have backfired very strongly.
- seanhunter 5y agoThe way the PR game is played it's not impossible that Facebook themselves planted the original story with an unattributable off-the-record briefing saying they were going to leave so they can then use that as a bargaining chip when they go on-record and say that they are "absolutely not threatening to leave".