On iOS you get an orange dot on the menu bar whenever the microphone is being used. I highly doubt Apple would hide that orange dot to cover for Meta/Alphabet.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
I hate how so many people think this is how this stuff works when the actual methods are almost scarier because they don't rely on something as clear as our conversations.
Then they use this when they connect their ad system to Meta or Google.
But it could also be an obscure feature, or simply a bug that FB's famously clever and eager-to-help engineers found a way to exploit.
It wouldn't surprise me at all. Recall that Mark himself has acknowledged that he tapes over his laptops' camera holes when they're theoretically not in use.
Why? Because he knows what's up.