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Can a quote be great if it is also completely factually inaccurate?

Could you elaborate why it is inaccurate?

For example Facebook explicitly does want to support job searches. (Babajob)

Facebook has a list of all current and future job search sites that anybody in India might want to use? What about job adverts that are just posted on the employers own website?

Unless you meant "Facebook wants to monopolise the entire Indian job search market with their own job search site while preventing people from accessing any competitors". That's more believable but hardly undermines the original quote.

The quote says Facebook doesn't want poor people to be able to search for jobs. That is obviously wrong or else they wouldn't provide job search. You may believe they want to monopolize job search, but that is not what the guy said. And show me an example of a job site that want allowed on their platform.

Helping the poor is a red herring. Facebook could easily give fair, unbiased acccess, but they want a monopoly.

Would you be so apologetic if Comcast gave everyone free NBC streaming but charged more for Netflix?

How could Facebook give everyone unfettered access? Wouldn't that involve paying for everyone's data plan?

The amount of money they used for lobbying and andverts was enough for them to pay for actual costs of internet packs if they worked with carriers on that

By not using a man-in-the-middle vulnerable proxy and giving fair and unbiased access to all websites.

Who said they would be paying for everyone's data access?

Babajob is not Facebook's job search site (nor is the other job search site I just noticed on the list, Times Jobs). Only a couple things on the list of sites included in the program are Facebook's. Here is the list (as of a few months ago):

  Aaj Tak
  AccuWeather
  Amarujala.com
  AP Speaks
  Babajob
  BabyCenter & MAMA
  BBC News
  Bing Search
  Cleartrip
  Daily Bhaskar
  Dictionary.com
  ESPN Cricinfo
  Facebook
  Facebook Messenger
  Facts for life
  Girl Effect
  HungamaPlay
  IBNLive
  iLearn
  India Today
  Internet Basics
  Jagran
  Jagran Josh
  Maalai Malar
  Maharastra Times
  Malaria No More
  manoramanews.com
  NDTV
  News Hunt
  OLX
  Reliance Astrology
  Reuters Market Lite
  Socialblood
  Times Jobs
  Times of India
  Translator
  wikiHow
  Wikipedia

Is Facebook being transparent about which of these websites are paying for inclusion in the free tier?

None of them https://info.internet.org/en/2015/11/19/internet-org-myths-a...

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