Yes, it is a complete fabrication to say that they are not data harvesters. They are very much data harvesters. I guess if you want to play with semantics, you could say that they were hired at points to do data harvesting, but don't consider themselves data harvesters. That doesn't mean that they're not data harvesters. They certainly have harvested data. It's a lie to say that they have not harvested data.
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