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Anyone who uses a Meta product, at this point, and thinks they have free speech, privacy, and/or ownership of their data either just joined the internet or is choosing to stay ignorant of the lengthy and growing list of abuses—abuses that are core to their business model.
There are a lot of people who have zero idea of what is happening because they only use the, preinstalled, Meta apps and nothing else.
Meta spends a lot of money to ensure their apps are on every phone and they'll do things like offering unmetered bandwidth to their services to people on limited data plans so, often, people literally cannot access anything else because data is too expensive.
I would bet large sums of money that this story will not go viral on any Meta platform so their captured audience will never know about it.
I don’t think there’s anyone using a meta product that does think that. Most just don’t care.