Facebook has stopped Messenger bots – here’s what you need to know
Facebook has put a pause on its chatbot program as concerns around privacy mount. Here, Decoded CEO Chris Monk unpacks everything you need to know.
We’re becoming increasingly familiar with chatbots popping up in the places where we used to just speak to real people. Whether it’s digesting the daily news, ordering a pizza or asking some questions of customer services, increasingly we are turning to Facebook Messenger and other platforms for the automated answers.
Well, we were until Facebook threw a rather large spanner in the works.
What’s happened?
On the 26th March Facebook announced that – in the light of the recent Cambridge Analytica findings – it is putting a pause on the review of new chatbot integrations.
I voted for who I wanted Facebook had nothing to do with it or the Russians! Besides Facebook is so liberal, far left! You give me reason never ever to be a democrat/liberal!
This does not negate the fact that the trump administration worked with Cambridge Analytica to lie to 87 million people to sway the election.
Why does my phone use so much data it costs $ 130 a month more sometime.
^^ Incredible that just mentioning the FB / Cambridge Analytica issue brings up trolls, Russian or not, bots or not
That was indeed my first though… It’s either a bot or Lois Steinhorst has successfully made themselves into a digital ghost…
Given the largely non-sensical and reactionary nature of the post I’m going to put money on bot but there are a lot of strange real people around too!