Or Meta, or whatever they are calling themselves today. Why? Because they don't want the bad PR of course. Meta axes a head of global community development after he appears on video in underage sex sting | TechCrunch
”The seriousness of these allegations cannot be overstated. The individual is no longer employed with the company. We are actively investigating this situation and cannot provide further comment at this time,” said a statement from a Meta spokesperson provided to us by Drew Pusateri. I’ll point out that Pusateri also tried to talk me out of the newsworthiness of this story over the phone before sending over the statement, noting that other outlets were not covering it (thanks for the advice). [My emphasis. Z-Deb]
Not The Bee takes that to mean the likes of NY Times, and WaPo will not be covering this. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Back to TechCrunch.
Even underage sex scandals are not new news at this point.
If you follow that link in the quote, you find a story at TC from 2017, in which they report on F*c*book replacing the head of Computer Vision at Occulus VR, who was apparently, or allegedly, caught in an underage sex sting operation.
And Not the Bee has a quick lesson in professional journalism.
Here we digress for a quick lesson in Journalism 101:
In journalism, if a source actively attempts to get you to not report on a story, that means it's really quite a bad story for them. [emphasis in the original.]
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