GettyAmidst 'unintentionally' uploading 1.5 million people's email contacts without their consent, Facebook is also doing something else that people haven't asked them to do - make a voice assistant. Facebook wants to control it before someone else does." Kane Simms, Founder of VUX World, Industry podcast and voice design studio, believes social could be a killer feature for voice;"Who better to create a social-first voice assistant than the company who’s been bossing social since 2006. So why is Facebook bothering with a voice assistant? If Facebook gets voice right, they may just change the game but at a cost of their ad-revenue as less time on site means fewer eyeballs unless a better data trade-off is garnered.

Source: Forbes April 18, 2019 14:37 UTC