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What’s the endgame here?

- just better ad targeting? (lol if so)

- policing accounts for various possible infractions?

- training data for ML models?

All of the above and anything else you can think of that can be tied back to 1.) profit; or 2.) the accumulation of clout with authorities (in that order).

I would definitely guess its for AI model data. Must be a huge trove of info other companies cant train on

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