Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta hasn’t given people much reason to trust it. That may have something to do with how the company’s early offering, The Facebook, could be used for stalking classmates online and how, in the following two decades, it became known for data leaks, spreading disinformation, and fomenting an actual genocide. Also, for harming an entire generation of children. Oh, and the thing about Meta glasses being used to film women and girls without their consent.

Asked about that last one during an interview with NBC News that aired on Thursday, and the fact that there have been reports of customers removing the light indicator that alerts people the camera is in use, Zuckerberg said such tampering is rare; he estimated that less than 0.1 percent of users have attempted to alter them (which, obviously, is not the same as zero). “So it’s a very small fraction,” he said. “Whenever you’re building any of these platforms, there’s some kind of adversarial games where some people try to do bad stuff, and we’re always going to be........

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