[Spooky23]

The reply all podcast did a decent discussion of the topic.

The messenger app probably doesn’t listen to you, but it’s abusive in other ways and shouldn’t be uninstalled. The main creepy feature of Facebook apps is that they continuously track your location. That’s a source of much of the creepy targeting that people notice.

Also, Facebook’s weasel-worded response to the issue implies that they do not use pervasive audio targeting, but buy data from people who do. The Wired article that claimed that using audio was impractical is nonsense.