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Facebook is a social media platform owned by Meta Platforms, connecting billions of users worldwide and generating revenue mainly through targeted ads.
Meta's Commercial Terms take effect October 30 and ask Facebook business users to permit crawling of their websites for AI training. Meta says robots.txt controls stay as they are, but the permission sits in a contract.
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Meta is extending its natural-language Your Algorithm control from Instagram to Facebook Feed and Reels. Users can tell the ranking system what they want more or less of, and Meta says recommendations change in real time.
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Malwarebytes found a wave of fake Calendly pages posing as Meta Careers that harvest Facebook and Google passwords and 2FA codes. The page stays in contact with the attackers' server as the victim types, so a stolen code can be used before it expires.
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European Commission findings of July 10, 2026 say Facebook and Instagram may breach the DSA through infinite scroll, autoplay and personalised recommendations. That adds interface features to ranking logic as a legal question for the largest platforms.
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Two Dominican nationals were extradited to the US on Sept. 30 to face conspiracy charges over a sextortion scheme aimed at Puerto Rico victims. They had been arrested 42 days earlier, on Aug. 19, and both are presumed innocent.
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Meta has been ordered or agreed to pay nearly $19bn over youth-harm claims this year while use of its apps keeps rising, the BBC reports. For a $2tn company the cash is small. The cost still to be measured is the screen-time limits Meta agreed to impose on young users.
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Meta is testing a Facebook that opens straight into full-screen video for some users in India, with a possible US expansion hinted for 2027. Brands and creators who reach people through followers now have reason to measure how much of that reach depends on the feed these tests push down.
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Meta, which actioned 33.2 million child exploitation items in H1 2026, has deployed an LLM to flag ads that signpost abuse material hosted elsewhere. Those ads show nothing illegal themselves, so Meta's review now has to judge where an ad leads as well as what it shows.
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Florida's attorney general asked a Pasco County court to pull under-14 users off Facebook and Instagram and cap teens at two hours a day. Having passed on its share of the multistate settlement, Florida now needs a judge to grant terms stricter than those Meta accepted elsewhere.
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Scammers text people a fake Facebook Marketplace listing naming them as seller to provoke a 'that isn't me' reply, Malwarebytes reports. Any answer tells a sender who likely already has the name and number that the line is live.
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Group-IB tied the Milk Dragon phishing kit to 258 phishing pages and victims in 66 countries, baited with fake discounts posted on Facebook and TikTok. An operator then relays the victim's own 3D Secure code to approve the fraudulent charge.
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Researchers studying Australian Facebook groups found a vaccine-information ad drew about 52% more clicks when worded as a doubt-raising question. The paired design isolates wording well, though its outcome is the click, so any effect on trust or vaccination remains unmeasured.
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YouTube changed Shorts recommendations on Oct. 2 to show fewer clips re-uploaded from other creators without additions of their own. Podcasters and streamers who rent reach through clip accounts now have to pay for original commentary or real editing to keep it.
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New Mexico asked a state judge for up to $40 billion from Meta after a jury found more than 43 million violations of its Unfair Practices Act. That is seven to eight times Meta's 2019 FTC settlement, sought over public statements about privacy and hate speech.
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New Mexico jurors found Facebook broke the state's Unfair Practices Act nearly 44 million times, at up to $5,000 per violation. A judge sets the penalty in the coming weeks from findings that Facebook's public statements about data sharing misled its users.
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Meta disabled President Lula's Facebook page and campaign ad account a week after an Eko Movement test got 87% of its disinformation ads approved. The Workers' Party says Meta gave no reason for a restriction imposed less than 11 days before Brazil's first round.
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Qustodio says Australian teens were back online at pre-ban levels within months of the under-16 social media ban, largely via false ages and VPNs. Meta's teen limits, New York City's classroom AI ban and any workplace AI rule written for company devices face the same test.
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Santa Fe jurors counted 31 misleading Meta statements on privacy and moderation as about 43 million violations of New Mexico law. Judge Francis Matthew sets the rate on Oct. 1, and at the $5,000 cap the state wants, one statement carries up to $10.5 billion.
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Elttam says two packets and an offline crack of weak encryption let attackers run code on TACACS+ servers before login. Only the Shrubbery Networks build has a patch, leaving sites on the archived Facebook fork to migrate or limit who can reach port 49.
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Meta will let games built in its two new AI tools, Horizon Create and Horizon Studio, play inside Facebook and Instagram feeds with no download. For a Horizon platform that has struggled to draw players, the feed slot matters more to creators than the prompt box.
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