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[–] OricaTonithos ago 

That's harder to add and would add processor time for something somewhere. Processor power, although not prohibitively expensive, would add a conspicuous delay in posting. Depending on the time of day and user activity level, it would probably bog the system such that people would become aware of the practice very quickly. It'd be a little like adding a watermark in a subtle way so as to not be distractingly obvious... like a shift in the color, but problems would arise from the fact that you could easily encode such things into an image, and then have a terrible time getting a machine (or even a person) to interpret the message. Pictures are not quite like the encoded audio strip found at the edge of 16mm film for instance. It would have to be in the visible area.

I still think it would be far easier to add messaging into the built-in meta tagging info for the picture file itself. The tracking info is easily written in (or altered) when the user posts. What I think FB intends to do is make it easier for them to find their "patient zero" in the case of criminal evidence (to justify the government shekels) and to track and limit accounts used as effective "fake news" hubs and sources for counter-narrative postings and memes.

My interest in this is: We voaters (I assume) like to create content. At least, some of us do. And when we go out and grab something to alter or just re-post, we don't want to leave an easy trail for the doxxers to follow either here or even to ourselves.