{"id":987224,"date":"2026-01-22T11:33:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T06:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987224"},"modified":"2026-01-22T11:33:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T06:03:29","slug":"sorry-mark-zuckerberg-customers-of-the-company-with-chinese-roots-you-spent-2-billion-on-are-not-happy-say-are-sad-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/22\/sorry-mark-zuckerberg-customers-of-the-company-with-chinese-roots-you-spent-2-billion-on-are-not-happy-say-are-sad-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry Mark Zuckerberg, customers of the company with Chinese roots you spent $2 billion on are not happy; say: Are sad that\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta&#8217;s $2 billion acquisition of Manus, a Singapore-based AI startup with Chinese roots, has backfired in an unexpected way. Instead of celebrating the deal, some existing customers are jumping ship, citing deep-seated concerns about Meta&#8217;s data practices, according to a CNBC report.<\/p>\n<p>Seth Dobrin, co-founder and CEO of Arya Labs, told CNBC that Manus was his favorite AI platform\u2014but he&#8217;s ditching it now that Meta owns it. &#8220;I do not agree with a lot of Meta&#8217;s practices around data and how they essentially weaponize people&#8217;s personal data against them,&#8221; Dobrin said. &#8220;I&#8217;m legitimately sad that this has happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta&#8217;s $2 billion acquisition of Manus, a Singapore-based AI startup with Chinese roots, has backfired in an unexpected way. Instead of celebrating the deal, some existing customers are jumping ship, citing deep-seated concerns about Meta&#8217;s data practices, according to a CNBC report. Seth Dobrin, co-founder and CEO of Arya Labs, told CNBC that Manus was his favorite AI platform\u2014but he&#8217;s ditching it now that Meta owns it. &#8220;I do not agree with a lot of Meta&#8217;s practices around data and how they essentially weaponize people&#8217;s personal data against them,&#8221; Dobrin said. &#8220;I&#8217;m legitimately sad that this has happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}