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“Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man, in a move parents described as “outrageous” and “upsetting.” Meta has 100% stopped even *pretending* not to be astoundingly evil. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

we dont need in depth reports and journalism for this. we just need any middle aged man to open the "for you" search on instagram to know what Meta is selling. my subscribes are fountain pens, national parks, puppies. my "for you" is half naked girls w/ captions that read "what I really want"

I was just complaining that once an algorithm figures out I’m a middle aged guy that’s all it suggests

In the early days of FB algorithms, when I didn't have ad-blockers nor tracking containment, I claimed to be 98 years old. I got ads for mortgage refinancing ("for my parents" in one case) and everything else featured underdressed twenty-something women.