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by srgpqt 1063 days ago
Just like everyone knows Google but never heard of Alphabet
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That's the goal. This way headlines will read "meta/alphabet fined $X million for selling user data to cartels/illuminati" and nobody will know WTF this is about because they'd need to read the article to learn it's the parent company of Facebook/Google.