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2. I wish Zuckerberg.had run that platform better. But he makes a lot of money off the ads anyway

Tue Jun 16, 2026, 10:48 AM

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(especially since they often allow ads even when they know they're scams), and he thinks all the AI crap will increase engagement on the platform.

And of course now he wants everyone wearing Meta smartglasses so they can spy on everyone around them and he'll have that data, gathered while the Meta AI is using facial recognition to tell the user just who they're looking at. And maybe suggesting what the user should talk about, so we can end up basically talking to bots wherever we go.

As QualComm's CEO said recently, the goal is to have us constantly in an AI web.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221279347

A nightmare for us. More money from data-gathering for them.

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