Meta’s ‘Originality’ Purge: A Desperate Gambit Against an Unsolvable Problem?
Introduction: Meta, following YouTube’s lead, has unveiled yet another grand plan to clean up its digital act, targeting “unoriginal” content on Facebook. While noble in ambition, this latest initiative feels less like a strategic evolution and more like a panicked, algorithmic flail against an existential threat—the very content deluge it helped create. For a company with a documented history of botching content moderation, one has to ask: Is this genuinely about quality, or just another exercise in damage control that…