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Yeah not seeing it either, both images say, only you can see this..

Feels more like it generated more than the user asked for and now it’s just showing those images in their feed.

What nobody mentions about "only you can see this" is that "you" refers to ordinary users of the service and there is no mention if employees are included in that grouping. It has happened before that systems secure from the public were misused by persons with privileges within the organization.

The obvious response is "well, yeah. So? They need it." but that's not how ordinary people, who don't deal with this daily, think. When they see "only you can see this" I think they take it literally.

The computer is always watching and sometimes so are the people running the computers.

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