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by throwawaysow 2665 days ago
This argument sounds a lot like gaslighting. You can put this argument for any unethical company and it would work.
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Can we please stop using "gaslighting" as shorthand for "an opinion or perspective expressed by a single user that I disagree with?" I've seen it in several comment threads here in the past few weeks and it's getting really annoying.
I think you could also identify similar negative consequences from any entity the size of Facebook. I think it’s a side effect of being big, and fb is no different than any of the F1000 or just about any government on the planet.

What I do see internally — executives down through rank and file acknowledge the problems and work really hard to address them. I haven’t seen the same level in introspection elsewhere, even when I worked for the DoD.

> This argument sounds a lot like gaslighting.

That's just a matter of whether you think OP truly believes what they said.

"It's not a lie, if you believe it!" - George Costanza
Indeed. You can be wrong without lying.
How is this gaslighting?