[jamiequint]

> To say The New York Times and the multiple reporters covering the Facebook scandals all have a personal agenda to make Facebook look bad is delusional.

Maybe they're just technologically illiterate then, because many of the NYT articles conveniently eliminate nearly all of the context or specifics around data use in a way that seems deliberately designed to make Facebook look bad. e.g. the story on partner deals last year conveniently did not mention that it would be impossible for FB to make an app that worked on feature phones without the existence of an API like the one the NYT got so worked up about.

> If the paper wanted to do a "hit piece," they'd just grab one of their columnists to write it and slap OPINION at the top of the story.

That's not how hit pieces work.

> The Times' investigations team is one of the best in American journalism. I highly doubt the editors would publish a story as a middle finger to Facebook. If you think otherwise, I welcome specific examples of agenda- pushing stories, with exactly the thing they're pushing out that benefits them and not the public.

Try reading all of the NYT pieces on FB for the last 12 months (including Cambridge Analytica) then look at the state of the tech world and the size of Facebook during the time they were making those decisions, then look into the technical details behind many of them (actual hacks excluded). The "FB is evil" narrative is not nearly as clear cut as you think.