it is bluffing when you admit wrongdoing but then keep doing it the advantage you get is a larger candidate pool who are more sympathetic with your company now

it is bluffing when you admit wrongdoing but then keep doing it the advantage you get is a larger candidate pool who are more sympathetic with your company now after you portrayed yourself as a victim of circumstances outside your control, aka. "It's not us, anybody is doing it!" in reality nobody forced that company to adopt the business model, which OP described as unethical ever heard of Stockholm Syndrom?