The department will reopen the $750,000 contract for FalcoNet, an AI-driven cellphone tracker from Cognyte, to competitive bids, and Cognyte can still bid, the Daily News reported. Meta said in 2021 it removed about 100 accounts linked to the firm, whose customers targeted journalists and politicians.
it means that facebook could not find a strong enough excuse to justify using them despite their well known lack of ethics, so anyone else using them is likewise morally bankrupt.