> Facebook say they aren’t doing this. The risk to their reputation if they are caught in a lie is astronomical. Even though I don’t believe Facebook is spying

> Facebook say they aren’t doing this. The risk to their reputation if they are caught in a lie is astronomical. Even though I don’t believe Facebook is spying on anyone surreptitiously through their phone’s microphone, I find that specific argument entirely unpersuasive. Facebook’s reputation is dogshit, at least with regular non-technical people I know. I’m in the US. People know they helped foment the January 6 insurrection in 2021 and saw how they deflected any and all responsibility while not fixing a thing afterwards. The reputational damage they’d absorb from actually doing this thing that so many people already think they’re probably doing pales by comparison.