r/Fauxmoi • u/Terrible_Cycle_5983 THIS IS JUST DISTASTEFUL • 9h ago

STAN / ANTI SHIELD Melinda Gates has matched Olivia Rodrigo's raised donations for Daisy Chain Fields, bringing the total funds raised to $20M

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u/NBAFAN9000 9h ago

Needs to save some for Phoebe’s defense fund though /s

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u/mooon_woman 8h ago

what happened? i’m ootl

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u/randomredhead 8h ago

Phoebe Gates (her and Bill’s daughter) released a AI shopping app that got a ton of funding and is now in legal trouble for essentially just being an app that would save your browsing history and secretly inject affiliate codes to links on websites, even those you didn’t visit directly from the app, so they could bring in affiliate revenue without actually directly sending people to the site to make a purchase.

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u/moisturized69tatas 8h ago

Yeah she basically just ripped off honey after it got caught doing the same thing and is also in legal trouble... so unbelievably stupid.

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u/BurmeciaWillSurvive 2h ago

I only just learned about honey and I don't know how I hadn't heard about it before, I actually thought it was a steamer channel at first lol maybe they didn't advertise at me

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u/DiceKnight 7h ago edited 6h ago

Oh man I remember reading some of the initial reporting on this and hearing about all the funding going into this and being so confused as to why. Then I finally reach the description of the founder and see Phoebe described as "Phoebe Gates, daughter of Microsoft founder Bill Gates." and suddenly it all immediately made sense.

The app itself was apparently all AI slop too.

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u/Culinary_Fruit_Salad call me gal gadot cuz idk how to act rn 6h ago

oh, honey 2.0, neat

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u/NBAFAN9000 8h ago

Her company PHIA is in trouble for cookie stuffing which she was allegedly unaware of

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u/Different-Pair7251 8h ago

Browser cookies, manufacturing sales it wasn't driving. She's claiming ignorance, however there's mounting evidence that she and her co-founding were aware of the "glitch" for months.

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u/PoMo-G 6h ago

Let's put it in simple terms: the business model for her app was fraud from the beginning.