Just because you don't understand statistics and metadata analysis doesn't make it fake. And of course, since it's real, you can surely point to all the apps whose network traffic was monitored and all the voice data constantly being transmitted that was captured. Because surely in an era where many people pay for data, it'd be impossible to miss the constant audio stream coming from every one of these devices eating up your bandwidth cap.

But nah, "I feel this is true" is all we need. Even when the person who says it, and said it to advertise their product, admits they lied for sales.

Are they tracking you? You bet. If you think they're so unsophisticated that they need to literally listen to your every word instead of the millions of other data points you FREELY give away already, you just don't understand the tech and are fear mongering.