The experimental app, internally called “Arena,” would be independent of Facebook and Instagram. It could compete for attention with Polymarket and Kalshi, the biggest prediction markets.

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    Crazy how by simply rebranding “gambling” to “prediction markets”, it went from being something illegal to something where people can now bet on anything at any time.

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    I heard they’re going to start harvesting and selling off all the engineers’ organs. Zuckerberg calls it an “unfortunately necessary next step”.

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    Did y’all notice that Facebook hasn’t a market leader for quite a while now? Their new products are only to catchup not disrupting or adding anything new.