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You know that very famous saying, it's typically used against Nepo babies. It's. It's not what you know, it's who you know. Well, Facebook, they want to know exactly who you know. They want to know all of them. Every single person that you might have even just glanced at on the bus that you walked by in the office hallway, they want to know and they want you to confirm through a feature that they call people people you may know, which gives you a suggested list of people that, well, you may know. And it's actually one of the lesser known but creepier aspects of the Meta algorithm. There was this alleged incident years ago where you have this psychiatrist and her patients. They all have the psychiatrist phone number. But perhaps because they all have the psychiatrist phone number, maybe Meta thought that they're all friends or they're all one degree apart from one another. So Meta starts suggesting to all of her patients, the other patients, as people you may know, like people that you have run into in the therapist waiting room as people you may know in another alleged incident, people part of an anonymous addiction group who don't share numbers with one another. They don't share phone numbers, they don't even share each other's names. They start getting people you may know suggestions, and it's just other members of this anonymous, not so anonymous group anymore. Which the theory to the psychiatrist incident. Well, they have the psychiatrist number, so maybe if Meta has access to the Contacts, they cross reference and you may know, and it's only one degree apart from each other. However, with the anonymous addiction group, if this really did happen, they don't know each other's names, they don't have each other's phone numbers, which makes netizens theorize, okay, maybe Meta is tracking users locations. If you go to the same location once a week and you stay there for 45 minutes with the same phone numbers and the same users that are also at that location, Meta just assumes that you all know one another. Meta claims that they don't do that, but who knows? But I guess the argument is Facebook has over 3 billion monthly active users. How do they know which 20 or 160 out of the 3 billion that you may actually know? And even if you do know them, there is the argument of who really cares? I mean, who really cares what anybody is posting on Facebook? It is not that far fetched to imagine that nobody cares until something happens to you. And if that's the case, someone suddenly family, friends, people you may know, even strangers on the Internet, they're going to start dissecting everything that you've ever posted on Facebook, such as the situation in Vietnam. June 10, 2025. A small personal account on Facebook in Vietnam posts a new status update from today. I'm logging off this account for good. Okay, It's a little mysterious, perhaps even a little melodramatic. And at the risk of sounding cold, unless you're this man's personal friend and you care deeply about him, it's not FASC enough to warrant a whole global hunt for what happened to this guy, why he's logging off of Facebook. This post in Vietnamese has been translated into various other languages, including English. This Facebook post goes viral because it'll be discovered that when this man posted this on Facebook, he had already been dead. He had been dead for six months. We know this because videos have been circulating of his murder online. There is this widely seen photo of this man's killer holding up his severed head, head to the mirror and taking a selfie. How do you post on Facebook six months after your own video recorded murder? Is this post going to help people find the killer? And most importantly, who the hell posted that? We would like to thank today's sponsors who have made it possible for Rotten Mango to support Children of Vietnam. They're a nonprofit focused on wraparound services for low income communities. They've provided over 4 million nutritious meals annually. This episode's partnerships have also made it possible to support Rotten Mango's growing team and we would also like to thank you guys for your continued support. As always, full show notes are available@rootten mangopodcast.com Huge disclaimers for this case. I don't know why I always have to do these disclaimers. For any other case that is outside of probably the Western nations, it's always the disclaimer of don't get racist. Like just because there is one incident or one crime taking place in a country does not deem that country to be dangerous. Does not deem that country to be off the travel list for tourists. It's one crazy person, a few crazy people. There are crazy people everywhere, obviously. Evidently there are a lot in the United States. Another huge disclaimer is this episode is so graphic there's no way around it. Please watch with extreme caution in the interest of full disclosure. There are just in depth descriptions of injuries as well as conversations of some very extreme, extreme interests that people have developed that revolve around self exit. There are also elements of cannibalism and at any given point during the research of this episode, we thought, okay, surely we have reached the rock bottom. Like it's not going to get deeper from here. Then it would just progress into more depraved activities and then it would just progress even more. So I would just be careful. And speaking of research for this case, none of this research would have been possible without a mass online anonymous group of Internet detectives. They go by Osint on Facebook and on Twitter. They have compiled a 100 plus page dossier PDF document detailing every aspect of this case. That document was then translated into English and it is a really well done investigative piece that I think is a pretty exhaustive overview of everything that has transpired thus far. And I would say they may be the only reason that this case got so much attention on a global scale. And perhaps they may be the only reason that there was an arrest made recently.
