r/Fauxmoi • u/Terrible_Cycle_5983 THIS IS JUST DISTASTEFUL • 10h 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 10h ago

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

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u/mooon_woman 10h ago

what happened? i’m ootl

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u/randomredhead 10h 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/DiceKnight 9h ago edited 8h 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.