Did Instagram’s Boss Finally Debunk the Mic Myth? – KnowTechie

News Instagram chief denies mic-spying myth Meta’s recommendation engine uses advertiser data and lookalike profiles to figure out what you’ll click. Just a heads up, if you buy something through our links, we may get a small share of the sale. It’s one of the ways we keep the lights on here. Click here for more. Instagram boss Adam Mosseri wants you to know: no, your phone isn’t secretly eavesdropping on your late-night ramen cravings.  In a post this week, Mosseri attempted to debunk one of the internet’s longest-running conspiracy theories: that Meta turns on your microphone to serve creepily specific ads.  He even admitted his own wife has asked if Instagram is “listening.” The timing, though, is awkward. Meta just announced that it’ll soon start targeting ads using a fresh stream of data: how you interact with its AI products.  Even if the mic isn’t on, Meta is still learning plenty about you, maybe more than you realize. Most of us know the feeling: you chat about hiking boots, then suddenly an ad for trail gear appears in your feed. Coincidence? Witchcraft? Mark Zuckerberg?  Mosseri insists it’s not microphones. Instead, he says, it’s Meta’s recommendation engine doing what it
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