> A Meta spokesperson, Andy Stone, wrote on Threads, the company’s text-based social network: “Sadly this is a familiar playbook in which a former employee is dismissed for poor performance and then goes public with distorted claims that misrepresent the ongoing hard work of our team.”

Skeletons keep piling up while PR try to dismiss them

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neilv 3 days ago | parent [-]

That quote is brilliant.

Corporate communications has playbook damage control responses, and this quote seems to be suggesting that the quoted response is one of them (it's "familiar").

Whether "former employees" are sketchily operating from playbooks, who knows. Because PR playbook-sounding statements don't have a lot of credibility.

	▲	Nevermark 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Innocent until proven guilty. Or the PR team undermines their own credibility with a stock and specious fact-free non-response. I think the point of these is to dodge the even guiltier look of “no comment”. And signal there won’t be any potentially costly cooperative engagement from their side to their shareholders. They don’t expect to be believed.