"Share this with five friends before midnight or you may die" is a sentence that runs down the spine of many an ex-MySpace user. Not because they narrowly avoided death but because of the cringey feeling of believing that would ever work. Seemingly to counter Meta training its AI model on public posts, many are falling for chain mail once more.

It's estimated that over 600,000 people have fallen for the hoax post, which states that the poster does not give Meta or anyone else permission to