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Sandberg (somewhere else recently): "We are explicitly not a news company, we are a tech company."




Similar to how the Daily Show and SNL are not news, but have precariously fallen into a position of authenticity.


precariously or intentionally depending upon your level of paranoia....


And Fox News "we are explicitly not a news company, we are an entertainment company". And same from Alex Jones.

Corporations shouldn't get to choose which laws they want to apply to them. Facebook is picking articles to put in NY feed, Facebook is a news company


Side note: whenever I see people blasting “corporations,” it flips my hysteria/ignorance bits. “Large companies” is usually a better-informed replacement since (a) most corporations are very small and uninfluential, e.g. mom and pop stores and (b) some influential multinationals are not set up as corporations, e.g. Bloomberg LP.


What someone says they are and what they actually are can be very different.




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