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🗓️ 1 January 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Barbing, baddaboo. |
| 0:02.6 | You know that very famous saying? |
| 0:04.9 | It's typically used against nepo babies. |
| 0:07.6 | It's not what you know. |
| 0:09.8 | It's who you know. |
| 0:11.1 | Well, Facebook, they want to know exactly who you know. |
| 0:13.7 | They want to know all of them. |
| 0:15.3 | Every single person that you might have even just glanced at on the bus, that you |
| 0:19.5 | walked by in the office hallway. |
| 0:21.8 | They want to know, and they want you to confirm |
| 0:24.9 | through a feature that they call people you may know, |
| 0:28.4 | which gives you a suggested list of people that, well, you may know. |
| 0:32.8 | And it's actually one of the lesser known, |
| 0:34.5 | but creepier aspects of the meta-algorism. |
| 0:37.4 | There was this alleged |
| 0:38.5 | incident years ago where you have the psychiatrist and her patients, they all have the psychiatrist's |
| 0:44.4 | phone number. But perhaps because they all have the psychiatrist's phone number, maybe Meta thought |
| 0:49.6 | that they're all friends or they're all one degree apart from one another. So meta starts suggesting to all of her patients, the other patients, as people you may know. |
| 0:59.3 | Like people that you have run into in the therapist waiting room as people you may know. |
| 1:04.4 | In another alleged incident, people part of an anonymous addiction group who don't share numbers with one another. |
| 1:10.5 | They don't share phone numbers. They don't even share numbers with one another. They don't share phone |
| 1:11.1 | numbers. They don't even share each other's names. They start getting people you may know suggestions |
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