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"One problem is that right now we can only retain evil crypto developers, due to our new platform stance which is pro-evil," said Eris Jùmen, head of media abuse at Facebook.

"These two were clearly non-evil developers, and frankly we are looking forward to returning to alignment with our core values of insularity, dark patterns, and subjective ethics."

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Please don't do this here.

I have seen satire in other comments here but have not noticed a similar request in those cases; could you clarify the difference? Thank you.

I think in this case it was just too generic - basically boo Facebook - and that moves discussion into a predictable pile-on rather than reacting to anything specific or interesting.

I'm not saying you owe $BigCo better, but rather that HN threads are good when they're specific and unpredictable, and bad when they're generic and predictable. Here are a couple of heuristics that I like to go by:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

"Facebook is committed to fostering an open and inclusive community, and that begins at our workspace. This is why we have a zero-tolerance policy for backbones, ethics or any other resemblence of a conscience. We truly live and breathe the utopia-building bullshit that is riddled in our media releases, and depend upon the talented engineers who readily prostitute their minds for the cause." added Mira Pedersen, VP of Human Relegations

"Earlier today," continues Pratiti Raychoudhury, Vice President, Head of Research "We provided Congress with the two full research decks that were the primary focus of the Wall Street Journal’s mischaracterization of internal Instagram research into teenagers and well-being." .... "Our internal research is part of our effort to minimize the bad on our platforms and maximize the good."

They only provided a page or two of their internal reports which is why I stopped laughing when I reached your comment. The others comments seemed believable but Facebook providing factual and verifiable information is too far off from the reality.

Oh we were doing satire?

Mark Zuckerberg responded with multiple assertions that "Facebook truly means well" and "cares about you as a user."

He then whispered into Mr. Bigglesworth's ear: 'Those Dumb F***' as he dived back into his data-powered virtual reality where he is King, and far richer than Lord Bezos.

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