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This implies that marketing is always or usually honest. I would argue that the exact reverse is true. In fact I was involved once in a series of marketing meetings where a marketing guru who had worked with some huge companies said flat out that "marketing is a lie" and he meant it literally. He explained that you're selling an idea, and thus it wouldn't be possible for it to be actually honest. Since you cannot buy a product that will solve all your problems, and yet that idea is implied in most ads. Happy smiling people somehow result from anything you can buy? Pfft.
Obviously that's not going to be how you market a video platform exactly, but also they were never going with a tagline like "Because YouTube doesn't allow bigotry!" whether it's true or not. Facebook doesn't market their service as a way to monetize your personal data despite the fact that it's exactly what it is. Marketing is inherently misleading at best.
That's just a different way of phrasing what was said and you seem to be disputing...