r/DeMeta

From the outside, it feels like it’s been a pretty intense year:

Massive AI restructuring and team reshuffles
Recent layoffs and role changes
Huge push toward AI-first across the company
More internal pressure to move faster
Leadership openly saying some AI plans haven’t gone as expected

For those still at Meta, what’s the atmosphere actually like?

Has morale changed? Are people optimistic about the AI direction, or is there more uncertainty than before? Has your day-to-day job changed significantly?

I’d especially love to hear from women and people who’ve been at Meta for a few years—has the culture shifted in any noticeable way?

Not trying to stir up drama. Just interested in hearing firsthand experiences rather than headlines.

Privacy....? From Meta....? Come One !

This is the same company that's been at the center of privacy controversies for years, and now they want everyone to believe they're the ones leading the privacy movement because they added usernames?

This is the same company that literally tells you your chats and data may be used across its ecosystem in different ways, and it's the same company that's been center by privacy controversies for years after Alphabet. Now they want everyone to believe they're the ones who leading the privacy movement because they added so called usernames?

So forgive me if I don't buy the "we care about your privacy" marketing. They care about privacy? Yeah... my ass.

Even Zuckerberg's first well-known project, ZuckNet, was built for his father's dental clinic. Fast forward to today, and Meta has become one of the biggest companies associated with data collection and privacy controversies

Their entire company has spent years copying features from other companies, wrapping them in a shiny marketing campaign, and calling it innovation. List are such like this :

**Instagram Stories** → Snapchat Stories (Snapchat: 2013, Instagram Stories: 2016)

**Facebook Stories** → Snapchat Stories

**WhatsApp Status** → Snapchat Stories

**Instagram Reels** → TikTok (TikTok became mainstream before Reels launched in 2020)

**Facebook Reels** → TikTok

**Threads** → X (formerly Twitter) (Launched as a text-based competitor to X)

**WhatsApp Channels** → Telegram Channels (Telegram launched Channels in 2015; WhatsApp in 2023)

**Instagram Broadcast Channels** → Telegram Channels (Conceptually very similar)

**WhatsApp Usernames** → Telegram Usernames (Telegram has had usernames since 2013/2014; WhatsApp launched them in 2026)

And now usernames? Seriously?

Telegram has had usernames since 2014. Discord has them. Signal has them. Plenty of apps have had this feature for years.

But Meta rolls it out in 2026 and suddenly it's a "masterstroke" and "innovation."

What are their CEO, executives, and even Zuckerberg smoking these days? Because if copying a decade-old feature and acting like you invented it counts as innovation, I genuinely need the number of their dealer.

Good feature? Absolutely.

Innovation? Not even close.

It is absolutely mind-boggling how Meta, a tech empire that claims to shape the future of the metaverse and cutting-edge AI, operates a customer support system that feels like it belongs in the 1990s.

When a user faces an issue, like an unjustified account suspension, they are trapped in a slow, primitive, and outdated loop. For 50 days, my case has achieved absolutely zero progress. Instead of utilizing advanced, modern infrastructure to provide swift solutions, Meta relies on broken automated scripts and useless bots that simply redirect you to more dead ends.

They are incredibly fast when it comes to taking people's money for ads or subscriptions, but when those same users need assistance, Meta suddenly moves at a snail's pace. It is embarrassing for a leading global technology company to have a support apparatus this backward, inefficient, and systematically delayed.

If you cannot provide basic, timely human support for your products, your entire "advanced technology" brand is nothing but a marketing illusion.

#MetaSupport #InstagramSupport #TechFail #MetaAI @Meta

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this account managed to rapid fire two posts while none of my posts make it even to "pending review stage".

I was outright blocked from posting at all.

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Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Faces Growing Backlash Over Online Scam Ads as Victims Demand Greater Accountability

The Times reports that victims of online scams are increasing pressure on Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, arguing the company should bear greater responsibility for fraudulent advertisements that appear on Facebook and Instagram.

Reuters previously reported that internal Meta documents projected a significant share of the company's advertising revenue came from high-risk scam advertising, while showing billions of scam advertisements across its platforms each day before stronger enforcement efforts. Meta disputes the characterization and says it has substantially increased its anti-fraud investments and removed large amounts of scam content.

Scams use sophisticated AI-generated deepfakes, fake investment opportunities, and impersonations of trusted public figures to persuade victims to hand over life savings.

Regulators in several countries consider whether large technology platforms should face stronger legal obligations for verifying advertisers, removing fraudulent content more quickly, and compensating victims in certain circumstances.

Why It Matters:

Online fraud has evolved into a global public safety issue. Artificial intelligence, deepfakes, and highly targeted advertising allow criminals to reach millions of people at minimal cost while making fraudulent schemes appear increasingly convincing.

Social media platforms have a fiduciary duty to be neutral communications services, companies that profit from advertising should bear responsibility for preventing financial harm.

As AI-generated scams become more sophisticated, governments, banks, and technology companies may all face pressure to redefine where accountability begins and ends.

If a platform profits from advertisements that later prove to be fraudulent, where should accountability ultimately lie: the scammers themselves, the banks processing the transactions, the users who clicked the ads, or the technology companies that accepted payment to distribute them?

hi!!

i always always try my best with consuming ethically - I buy almost everything second hand, and if I really can't, I will try buy from ethical and small businesses. i'm also boycotting everything on the bds list.

i also don't really use social media, except from Instagram - and this is my problem. If it wasn't for the fact that I'm trying to create a small business and sell handmade art/crafts, I wouldn't use Instagram at all. In the past 2 weeks or so, I haven't used it as I've been worrying I'm doing the wrong thing. I've heard they've been censoring an taking down posts in support of Palestine.

I'm struggling with rational decision making and thinking due to having poor mental health at the moment, so what I'm asking for is a second opinion. Is it ok for me to continue using Instagram for business purposes? or am I doing something wrong?

thank you for reading!! :) advice needed and welcome!

Outta nowhere, I am no longer able to access my facebook account, unless I submit selfie verification vid. It was a total blockade, Meta unilaterally logged me out of already signed in device.

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If Meta were that proactive and devoted in combating scam and/or fraud syndicates...

Many people are trying to get rid of WhatsApp, but this is difficult because their friends/family don't want to switch to for example Signal. How to gently push them to use other platfroms?

I thought about setting up an auto-reply to inform everyone that I'm not using WA anymore, and that they can reach me on Signal, email, SMS, etc.

WhatsApp unfortunately doesn't have auto-reply, but WhatsApp Business has. So maybe i could install Business, setup an auto-reply, and just wait until most friends have switched to other ways to communicate with me.

Other option what I'm doing now: Archive WhatsApp, restore it once/twice a day to check for messages and archive it again.

I'm also trying to r/degoogle and have just installed LineageOS on an older 2nd phone, and of course I don't want to ruin it by installing WhatsApp :)