Comment by crtasm
6 days ago
It seems incredibly unlikely a low level programmer could come up with this method then get the necessary code into both the tracking pixel served to third party sites and Meta's android apps without some higher ups knowing about it.
Zuckerberg personally signed off on torrenting books for Llama. It would be a particularly dim group of “low level” programmers who did this without trying to first secure some upper level approvals to share the blame once caught.
Or at the very least, a low level programmer not claiming credit for it during performance reviews which are reviewed by higher people.