Companies like this need the rest of the world (and primarily the developer community) to believe myths about our ability to understand and build things the same way the United States government and media worked to build a climate of fear around crime (both in the 90s and post-9/11). It's effectively baked into the devices we use because we can't push back against VPs at these behemoths; their investors refuse such logic.
Hence my wariness of folks who claim "opinions my own"; but pockets are _lined_ by these practices with no evidence of pushing against these narratives.