screen time Dec. 31, 2024 Meta’s Big Bet on Bots Why AI friends are coming to Facebook and Instagram. By , a tech columnist at Intelligencer Formerly, he was a reporter and critic at the New York Times and co-editor of The Awl. Photo-Illustration: Facebook Photo-Illustration: Facebook Among Meta’s many resolutions for the new year — making augmented reality and the metaverse happen, positioning itself to absorb TikTok refugees if the app gets banned, cracking open Apple’s platforms to get more a...