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didn't tobacco companies once refute a causal connection between smoking and lung cancer?
what else is he going to say? that he knows he's profiting from pouring poisonous sludge into all our lives?
Worse. They had these big, decades-long gaslighting campaigns, selling cigarettes as "good for you" because they "calm" you down, make you look cool and lower your blood pressure, etc.
And, even though Big Tobacco was obviously lying, they sewed enough doubt to keep the topic as an issue of debate for decades after we knew it was dangerous.
Zuck is likely doing the same because it works.
Oil companies too. Honestly, the tobacco industries bullshit is pretty foundational to any communications studies.
It's something we should all keep in mind when whenever we are subject to corporate communications/public relations.