With regard to Facebook trying to manipulate your emotions - Borowitz wades in. But it could apply any day to almost any company.

June 30, 2014

Abuse of Power by Gigantic Corporation Comes as Total Surprise

Posted by Andy Borowitz
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MENLO PARK (The Borowitz Report)-Millions of Americans awoke on Monday to the shocking news that a gigantic corporation with unprecedented power over their lives had allegedly abused that power for commercial gain.
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Across the United States, stunned consumers were shaking their heads in disbelief after learning that a gargantuan company whose explicit goal is to make as many billions of dollars as possible through any means available would put its own interests ahead of those of its customers.
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"It never would have occurred to me that an enormous corporation with the ability to track over half a billion customers would ever exploit that advantage in any way," said Harland Dorrinson, twenty-nine, a caterer from Albuquerque. "Like a lot of other people, I feel used."
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Carol Foyler, thirty-eight, a human-resources administrator from Pittsburgh, echoed the reactions of many who were blindsided by the news. "I definitely feel like I've lost my innocence today," she said. "If you can't trust a multi-billion-dollar corporation to do the right thing, who can you trust?"