> Are Facebook employees so convinced of the nobility of the company, in spite of all the evidence to the contrary
At best, we only have evidence that the subset of employees who chose to comment on that internal thread and whose comment was chosen by the journalist to be included in the article feel this way.
One of the things that media and aggregation have really accelerated is the cognitive fallacy where we assume the most interesting data points are the most frequent when in reality the inverse is almost always true — common is boring. If you were to go by the news, men bite dogs way more often than dogs bite men. But that's only because "man bites dog" is worth reporting and "dog bites man" is not.
At best, we only have evidence that the subset of employees who chose to comment on that internal thread and whose comment was chosen by the journalist to be included in the article feel this way.
One of the things that media and aggregation have really accelerated is the cognitive fallacy where we assume the most interesting data points are the most frequent when in reality the inverse is almost always true — common is boring. If you were to go by the news, men bite dogs way more often than dogs bite men. But that's only because "man bites dog" is worth reporting and "dog bites man" is not.