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We're Watching Facebook Die
In the first quarter of 2024, Meta made $36.45 billion dollars - $12.37 billion dollars of which was pure profit. Though the company no longer reports daily active users, it now uses another metric: “family daily active people.” This number refers to “registered and logged-in users of one
Yet Meta has become a company that shows utter contempt for its users, turning products like Facebook and Insagram into algorithmic nightmares that undermine their core purpose, namely connecting people, while intentionally allowing malignant actors like anti-vaxers and spammers to thrive so that the numbers behind these arbitrary metrics goes up. Stealing Twitter’s disastrous pivot to paid verification — which, in its first few moments, backfired spectacularly on Musk, allowing pranksters to impersonate multi-billion pharmaceutical multinationals and wipe billions from their market value — is indicative of Meta's willingness to scrape the bottom of the barrel until it’s tunneled through to the periphery of the Earth’s crust. In essence, Meta’s algorithm is actively monetizing sending users to questionable groups that, according to the study, “used known deceptive practices, such as account theft or takeover, and exhibited suspicious follower growth,” showing them ads throughout the entire experience.
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