Desert Hermit

It’s Forbes - if they don’t use an image in the thumbnail of a thing people know, they might as well not use anything. It’s normie-facing.

It might also be that out of 97 million daily active users, if 1/10th of 1% are attention-seeking crazies, that’s 97,000 people over-sharing at absurd levels.

Depending on who built the house, it’s the standard for a “good” house in Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia and I think Kenya.

It’s been happening for a few months, my theory was that in the runup to the election it was their only idea for CYA about bots, and it just so happens to mean they’re using facial recognition scanning to catalog the real humans on their platform.