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This is really, really bad. For one thing, for Facebook to say the report is inaccurate, but then not dare to say how the report is inaccurate—that is the ultimate non-denial denial. If you can truthfully say anything else—or even if you... 1/
...are confident that your lies will hold—you will say something else, rather than take refuge in a denial that might apply only to the smallest quibbling smidgen of the story.

There is no way to read this other than like this: There were powerful forces inside Facebook... 2/
...that saw selling more ads and getting richer as a cause subject to no moral or, indeed, contractual (with Apple) limits whatsoever. And Mark Zuckerberg likes, approves of, and keeps such people around, permanently. So **saw**, and **see**. They are still there, and that... 3/
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Rene Ritchie: Facebook & Spyware: ‘NSO Group’s CEO, he said two Facebook representatives approached them back in October 2017 and asked to purchase the right to use certain capabilities of ther military-grade Pegasus... 4/
...spyware on iPhone user…. Now, Facebook claimed NSO’s account was inaccurate and misrepresented the discussion, but offered no alternate account or rational for the that discussion, at least that I’ve ever seen…

LINK: <reneritchie.net/?fbclid=IwAR14…> 5/
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