Meta announced contributor badges for its Forums app, positioning the feature as recognition for community experts. The reality is far darker: Meta is engineering unpaid labor extraction at scale to harvest AI training data. Launched in May 2026, Meta’s Forums explicitly mimics Reddit and Quora’s Q&A structure. That structure is valuable for one reason alone. […]
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