Why is Meta being pushed so hard?

These earnings weren’t good They reported a dip in users for the first time ever. They’re making up for that by cramming more ads onto their platforms while charging advertisers more. Instagram has notably just become one ad after another and a much worse overall experience imo. I recently got rid of it. Those earnings also conveniently left out their debt financed $27 billion dollar Louisiana Data Center. That’s in on top of at least $115 billion already spend on AI with virtually no market share or even coherent strategy. The Metaverse was another $80 billion burned for nothing. Debt has doubled. Their smart glasses are also unprofitable. Company moral is the lowest it’s ever been. The younger generation is not making FB accounts. Instagram is next. Pew Research Center reported a fifth of adults have deleted their social media accounts and a third would like to. That critical mass where is starts to snowball is eventually gonna be reached. And that’s on top of immense regulatory pressures all over the world (100,000 pending lawsuits) and a generally toxic and disliked brand. I know the death of Meta has been talked about ad nauseam, but at some point the signs can’t just be brushed off. \- Rapidly increasing debt \- Multiple ridiculously expensive failed projects \- Zero AI differentiation \- Virtually zero AI market share outside their own ecosystem \- Declining users with a largely negative view of the platform \- 100,000 open lawsuits and immense national and international regulatory pressures \- And, to top it all off, dissatisfied and apathetic employees looking for the exit door. I personally just view this a toxic company squeezing out as much ad revenue as they possible can before the public moves on from their platforms. And that trend line has started. FB and Instagram have plateaued and daily active users are going to continue to shrink as younger people don’t sign up and older generations try to unplug from the doom scrolling that’s now so apparently toxic and unhealthy.