But we can still consider the consistency of their story, because they are telling that story to influence the perception of their actions.

The consistency of a mission statement? Are you guys for real?

To be clear: I'm not arguing that everyone at OpenAI or Meta is a bad person, I don't think that's true. Most of their employees are probably normal people. But seriously, you have to tell me what you guys are smoking if a mission statement causes you to update in any direction whatsoever. I can hardly think of anything more devoid of content.

A lie still tells you what the liar things you should believe of him, in this case what the public is supposed to think of these layoffs.