Decoder with Nilay Patel · Thursday, September 24, 2026
Nilay Patel raised concerns about Meta's handling of problematic uses of its glasses, pointing out that the company has already begun downranking videos on Instagram that show harassment of retail workers and women. Patel questioned why Meta continues to push the product if it acknowledges that some of its generated content is detrimental.
“And there are already examples of this inside of Meta, where they know the meta glasses are being used to harass retail workers and women, and they have started downranking those videos in Instagram to provide less incentive to make them.”
“So I think a version of this question you could ask directly is, if you know some of the content that is being made with these glasses is so bad that you've downranked it on your own distribution platform, what is so good about these glasses that it makes it worth having these debates over and over again?”