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by jeoqn 1237 days ago
We shouldn’t be surprised by lack of integrity. This is not news.
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Lack of integrity in general is not news, but it is valuable to know about specific examples. Not least because it undermines Facebook’s PR fluff.
I imagine that inventing a lack of integrity for people is a great way of justifying terrible behaviour. "No-one else has integrity so I'm justified by also not doing so". It doesn't even have to be true as long as you believe it.
We should be.

This fatalism is exactly the problem. You see poor behavior, slap the label "business" on it, and all of a sudden it is expected, accepted and even defended.

That it isn't surprising doesn't mean we shouldn't call it out.