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by throwaway384629 1346 days ago

Given the history of Facebook, there are high chances that the leaks are true. The tweet that you linked claimed the leaks to be fabricated based on following 3 points and imho, none of the 3 points make much sense.

>> 1. "http://instagram.workplace.com" isn't a URL that exists lmao 2. any emails sent from andy et al would be " @meta ," not " @fb " 3. a source just confirmed there's no email alias called "Internal"

If a url is not available to public that does not mean that the url does not exist “Lmao”

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duskwuff 1345 days ago

> If a url is not available to public that does not mean that the url does not exist

Compare the behavior of the following URLs:

http://cisco.workplace.com/

http://contoso.workplace.com/

http://google.workplace.com/

Two of these are real companies that have signed up for Workplace. One is not. See if you can tell which is which.

Now, which of these does http://instagram.workplace.com/ seem most like?

(Of course, it is possible that Meta has done something special to make their Workspace instance behave exactly like a nonexistent one. I can't rule that out. But it would be very unusual for them to build in a confusing special case just for themselves.)

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mandeepj 1345 days ago

> any emails sent from andy et al would be " @meta ," not " @fb"

Right! The reasonings does not make any sense, especially the above. Why would FB change its email addresses to Meta? Their stock ticker is still FB.

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colejohnson66 1345 days ago

> Why would FB change its email addresses to Meta?

To go all in on the name change? `@fb.com` will probably just forward.

> Their stock ticker is still FB.

Not true since June 9[0]. Their NASDAQ ticker is $META[1]. Links to $FB[2] redirect to the correct one.

[0]: https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/facebook-ticker-cha...

[1]: https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/meta