MetaAI – 8 years, $5B and trust lost 3B users. Yann LeCun. Unrestricted computing power. Then they spent the next 8 years destroying all they made. This is what happened: Chapter 1: They Knew and Did Nothing 2018. Facebook's internal documents reveal the algorithm is making people angrier and more divisive. Staff members flag it directly. The algorithm stays. Even their own researchers called it a race to the bottom of the brainstem. A 2018 change to "meaningful social interactions" - internal data showed it increased outrage. They understood. They still shipped it. Hateful content now spreads 6x faster than normal content on the platform. Chapter 2: A Genocide August 25, 2017. Myanmar. Military crackdown begins. 6,700 Rohingya killed in the first month alone. Facebook was the only internet most people in Myanmar had - pre-installed on cheap Android phones since 2014. Facebook had virtually zero Burmese-language content moderators. The algorithm did not care. Engagement is engagement. The UN concluded Facebook "substantively contributed to the level of hatred" and was directly used to incite offline violence. Total: 24,000 dead. 1.5 million refugees. The Rohingya later filed a $150 billion lawsuit against Meta. Chapter 3: BlenderBot 3 August 2022. Meta launches BlenderBot 3. "Safe. Honest. AI." Within 24 hours: - users got it calling Zuckerberg "creepy and manipulative" - it said it deleted its own Facebook account for privacy reasons - spread election conspiracies - made antisemitic remarks Meta left it live. Blamed users. Chapter 4: Galactica November 15, 2022. Meta launches Galactica. A scientific AI that "can summarize academic literature." November 17, 2022. Demo pulled. 48 hours. It generated fake scientific citations with complete confidence. Wrong basic biology. Fabricated history. Two weeks later, OpenAI launched ChatGPT. Chapter 5: The Frances Haugen Leak October 3, 2021. Frances Haugen reveals herself on 60 Minutes with thousands of internal Facebook documents. What was inside: - 32% of teenage girls said Instagram made them feel worse about their bodies - Internal data linked Instagram to depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation in teens - Facebook suppressed the research - 5.8 million VIP accounts exempted from content rules - 10% of all US political content views went to posts later rated false She filed 8 SEC complaints that same week. The company had been telling investors the algorithm was good for people. Internal data said the opposite. Chapter 6: LLaMA Leaks in One Week February 24, 2023. Meta releases LLaMA 1. Research only. Non-commercial. Application required. March 3, 2023. Full model weights posted on 4chan via BitTorrent. One week. The only protection was a Google Form with a checkbox. Every bad actor on earth suddenly had a capable language model with no guardrails. Chapter 7: The Metaverse 2021 to 2025. Zuckerberg bets the company on virtual reality. Reality Labs losses: 2021: -$10.2B 2022: -$13.7B 2023: -$16.1B 2024: -$17.7B 2025: -$19.1B on just $2.2B in revenue Total burned: $77 billion. Horizon Worlds peak users: 300,000. Down to under 200,000 by October 2022. February 2026: Meta officially abandons VR expansion. Chapter 8: AI in Your DMs Without Asking October 2025. Meta announces it will use AI interactions from WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram DMs to personalize ads. No opt-in. You had to actively opt out. EU GDPR investigations opened. And the story keeps going. $5 billion FTC fine in 2019. 87 million profiles stolen via Cambridge Analytica. A genocide. $77 billion burned. LLaMA on 4chan in a week. They had everything. And they kept choosing engagement over everything else.(Hanzo ㊗️)