Now comes a new historic first: a song produced via Facebook’s smart display and camera, Portal. Where Give Up was novel in its asynchronous collaboration outside of a studio context ...

Facebook unveiled Portal, video-communication devices that incorporate smart-speaker features using Amazon’s Alexa, and provide a way to listen to music and watch videos together with friends.

Instead, it actually feels like a shining, clunky example of all our worst assumptions about marketers wedged into a beloved show kicking off its swan song ... where this Facebook Portal pollution ...