Comment by haswell

Good/bad faith isn't just about one's preference about a form of argument, but can also completely change the validity of the underlying argument.

The point here is that bad faith is doing exactly that: making the legitimacy of the argument presented by the author fundamentally questionable. Comparing the core business model of a company that has invested in capabilities like Advanced Data Protection with Meta in an article highlighting the ways authorities can get your data...seems disingenuous at best, and just plain wrong/misleading.

> we're skipping past that entirely to deconstruct a single sentence as a "gotcha"

When someone sets up a false premise, then yes, everything that comes after it is suspect.