In an interview this week, Instagram’s Adam Mosseri explicitly denied this on an interview on CBS this morning.
Are they listening?
Instagram and Facebook have been accused on more than one occasion of abusing their access to users phones. Granted while Facebook hasn’t been an angel in that regard, one particular conspiracy theory keeps coming up. In particular, the idea that Facebook and associated apps record your conversations in order to serve you ads.
Instagram says:
In an interview this week, Instagram’s Adam Mosseri explicitly denied this on an interview on CBS this morning. She gave the example of restaurant ads bubbling up in your Instagram profile after you’ve been talking about eating
All about the algorithm
In other words, Instagram doesn’t need to hear you speaking to know what you want. The way you act informs the algorithm of what content you’d be receptive to, whether you know it consciously or not.
Always refuted
Of course, it seems that no matter how many times this is refuted in manners one could deem definitive it always keeps popping back up
