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Facebook has over 2,000,000,000 daily active users...
3 billion by now, and still growing. They may be an "old people platform" in the West, but they have a very solid foothold in emerging markets. Through unfair competition like offering free mobile data for Facebook they have managed to become "the internet" in a couple countries.
That's good, imagine those people roaming the streets instead..
“Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.”
TFA doesn't exactly strike me as doing a good job of promoting the chatbot... it reminds me more of that Microsoft "Tay" AI.