| ▲ | vee-kay an hour ago | |
FYI, Meta earns billions by showing scam ads. https://qz.com/consumer-federation-america-sues-meta-scam-ad... https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortu... It is unlikely that Meta will suddenly gain morals scruples to avoid profiting from user content, with or without user consent. This is the same company that invasively spies on its own employees, to train AI models. https://www.wired.com/story/meta-accidentally-let-employees-... Meta — the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp — has a long history of abusing user trust. It has been fined billions for illegal activities like unauthorised data harvesting (Cambridge Analytica), illegal facial recognition, and mishandling children’s private information. Beyond what’s illegal, Meta is ethically notorious for emotional manipulation experiments, addictive design targeted at teenagers, rampant surveillance (even of non-users), promoting misinformation, and ignoring research that shows its products harm mental health. | ||