what if I told you that Facebook is the norm and not an exception, CEOs and comms people lie constantly, and greasy access journalism is everywhere in tech?

https://www.cjr.org/special_report/reporting-on-facebook.php

If "access journalism is bad" is only just suddenly a revelation for you, you may perhaps be part of the problem

Facebook is atrocious, no doubt. But their tactics are neither new nor some aberration in PR.

it is adorable to watch tech reporters that kiss Apple's ass day in, day out have the faint realization that being too cozy with companies and taking them at their word might be bad

I mean, this story really begs the question: why were you not a "skeptical industry investigator" in the first place?

Why is a company or CEO lying constantly to you so surprising?

Why is the idea that access journalism dinner parties might be bad only now occurring to you?

I guess a lot of tech reporters come into the space as fanboys, which usually works out great because unskeptically hyping product sells ads and drives engagement.

Then when their sacred cows act like every other company ever (Exxon, AT&T, Monsanto) they're suddenly surprised?

like Jason here, I think it would be cool to see more industry introspection into how unskeptical gadget hyping blogs were complicit in helping build the bullshit echosphere Facebook then exploited https://twitter.com/jason_koebler/status/1278369997648277504?s=20

this great thread by Elizabeth is talking about the same problems, albeit from a different launching pad: https://twitter.com/espiers/status/1278399842025385985