<story><title>Facebook’s attempt to smear the whistleblower</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/5/22711182/facebook-whistleblower-smear-pr-response</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>koboll</author><text>Okay, so Facebook has said she&lt;p&gt;- worked there for less than two years and had no direct reports&lt;p&gt;- never attended some sort of key meeting&lt;p&gt;- did not work on the subject matter in question&lt;p&gt;...and therefore, she lacks context which undermines some of her claims.&lt;p&gt;Which of those is a matter of character, or a &amp;quot;disgusting&amp;quot; attack? They might be wrong, or they might be right but bringing up irrelevancies, but the writer is acting like stating these is some sort of reprehensible smear.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook’s attempt to smear the whistleblower</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/5/22711182/facebook-whistleblower-smear-pr-response</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ryandrake</author><text>I always liked Edward R. Murrow&amp;#x27;s response to Senator McCarthy&amp;#x27;s attempt to smear him: &amp;quot;Since he made no reference to any statements of fact that we made, we must conclude that he found no errors of fact.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;1: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.americanrhetoric.com&amp;#x2F;speeches&amp;#x2F;edwardrmurrowtomccarthy.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.americanrhetoric.com&amp;#x2F;speeches&amp;#x2F;edwardrmurrowtomcc...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>