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• Succession actor Jeremy Strong plays Zuckerberg as a "full-on villain", according to a review in the Hollywood Reporter

• His reputation is unlikely to be helped by The Social Reckoning, a film by Aaron Sorkin released this week. It's about whistleblower claims that Meta executives were aware of their products harming young people.

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• UK watchdog opens first Online Safety Act probe into Meta

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• Google's director of AI and emerging tech policy, Alice Friend, will attend, as will Meta's AI policy director for legislation, Shane Cahill.

• The testimony will take place during a rare "Council Committee of the Whole" hearing, which means that all 51 members are expected to attend, according to a release from New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin.

• Senior leaders from Anthropic , OpenAI, Google and Meta are slated to testify under oath during a New York City Council hearing about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence on Monday, following a month of intense debate surrounding the risks posed by advanced AI models.

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• Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and other Senate Democrats sent letters to the CEOs of Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft seeking information on tax subsidies for AI and data center development they say was authorized by the GOP-led "one big beautiful bill" act.

• Sen. Elizabeth Warren , D-Mass., led the letters, which were sent Sunday night and shared exclusively with CNBC, to the CEOs of the four companies asking for information on tax deductions they've claimed related to AI and data center development and on their lobbying efforts in the lead-up to the passage of the 2025 legislation, known more commonly as the "one big beautiful bill" act .

• They requested answers from each company by Oct. 12.

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• 整改 — Meta

  Now Meta has requested time through the end of this year to re-review other privilege redactions it’s made

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• Meta’s lawyers have argued that certain evidence should be withheld from public view on the grounds of attorney-client privilege in the ongoing lawsuits over alleged harm to teens’ safety and mental health

• The lawyers suing Meta argue the Project Nido (an internal name for the Teen Accounts team) swag is part of “culture of privilege abuse at Meta” aimed at keeping the research it’s conducted internally on teen harm out of the public eye

• Now Meta has requested time through the end of this year to re-review other privilege redactions it’s made, while the plaintiffs’ lawyers say a neutral party should be appointed to lead the review, paid for by Meta.

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• German court rules Meta liable for fake ads on Instagram, Facebook

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• Meta’s Oversight Board Orders the Company to Remove Deepfake Videos From Facebook

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• 持续披露 — Meta

• 调查 — Meta

  Its investigation found that the data had been placed in the development repositories by mistake.

• 整改 — Meta

  Following the discovery, Meta blocked the attackers’ access, replaced exposed access keys and other credentials, and strengthened its security measures.

• 退款或补偿 — Meta

  Those affected are being offered credit monitoring and services that track whether their personal information appears on the dark web.

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• Meta emphasized that the incident did not involve a vulnerability in any of its products and that its internal systems were not breached.

• The exposed material consisted primarily of business software code, but also included a small amount of personal information that had been uploaded mistakenly and in violation of company policy.

• The remaining 1% included personal data.

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• 否认 — Meta

  Meta has disputed the claims and Wang said users may have given permission earlier in conversation and forgotten.

• 整改 — Meta

• 否认 — Meta

  Meta has pushed back against these reports

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• Some Muse users have complained on social media that the agent accessed their personal messages without permission, according to CNBC.

• Meta has disputed the claims and Wang said users may have given permission earlier in conversation and forgotten.

• Meta has pushed back against these reports

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• Bank Leumi has filed a NIS 26.6 million lawsuit against Meta in Tel Aviv District Court, alleging that fraudulent advertisements impersonating the bank on Facebook and Instagram are being used to steal customers’ sensitive information and access their accounts.

• The bank claims Meta’s screening and monitoring systems are insufficient to detect and prevent the scams before they reach users.

• The fraudulent advertisements allegedly use Bank Leumi’s name and trademarks without authorization while offering fake promotions, including shopping vouchers and vehicle raffles.

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• 否认 — Meta

  “We disagree with the ruling and will appeal,” Meta told AFP in a statement Thursday.

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• A US judge in New Mexico has ordered Meta to pay another US$567m (£421m) for its failure to warn the public about dangers its platforms posed to children, marking the largest fine

• In March, the jury found Meta violated the state’s Unfair Practices Act by misleading consumers about the safety of its products for children.

• SAN FRANCISCO — A New Mexico judge on Thursday ordered Meta to pay more than half a billion dollars over the state’s claims that the social media giant created a “public nuisance” and harmed children.

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• The ruling that was issued by Judge Bryan Biedscheid in the second phase of a landmark trial directed $420 million of the amount to be used for treatment services for young people.

• The order follows a March jury verdict that imposed $375 million in civil penalties on Meta after finding that the company knowingly harmed children's mental health and concealed information related to child sexual exploitation on its platforms.

• A New Mexico court has ordered Meta Platforms to pay $567 million over alleged harms to young users on Facebook and Instagram.

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• The almost $1 billion fine in New Mexico against Meta may not seem like all that much for the parent company of Instagram and Facebook.

• But it’s a major ruling in the ongoing debate over social media and children’s safety.

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• 澄清 — Meta

  “There is no change to how Meta uses web crawlers; any suggestion to the contrary is false,” the company said. “We’re simply consolidating our commercial and self-serve ad terms to make it easier for businesses to understand our advertising rules.”

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• “There is no change to how Meta uses web crawlers; any suggestion to the contrary is false,” the company said. “We’re simply consolidating our commercial and self-serve ad terms to make it easier for businesses to understand our advertising rules.”

• The new terms of use unilaterally grant Meta the authority to “use automated software” to grab “any content” in order to “develop” its own offerings, including artificial intelligence.

• Meta, the parent company of Facebook, recently changed its terms of service for business accounts, granting itself sweeping new authority to scrape business users’ websites for content to power its artificial intelligence products without a contract or compensation.

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• Meta employees said Lula's accounts were hindered during Brazil election, Folha reports Reuters

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• 澄清 — Meta

  A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web.

• 澄清 — Meta

  Today’s update to its terms and a new statement go further, removing the controversial language entirely.

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• Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns.

• A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web.

• According to legal experts interviewed by Nieman Lab , this looked like a “remarkable provision” that could give Meta permission to scrape the website of any publisher with a Meta business account and use the content to train the company’s AI models.

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• The ruling comes shortly after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is running against Flávio Bolsonaro, filed a complaint accusing the tech company that owns Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp of using biased algorithms and AI restrictions to favor the opposition candidate ahead of the election.

• Justice Marco Aurélio Bellizze ruled that Meta cannot reduce the distribution of political content, restrict searches, or remove posts in a way that creates an imbalance between Lula and Bolsonaro. His ruling also orders the company to ensure its artificial intelligence tool applies identical criteria to both candidacies.

• Bellizze said in his ruling that Meta must pay a fine of 500,000 reais (US$98,000) per day if it fails to comply.

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• 否认 — Meta

  making it clear that the company does not believe its product did this without the user’s consent

• 澄清 — Meta

  You have to enable both Full Disk Access and the Messages connector for Muse to be able to read your Messages content.

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• Mathew found that a penalty of more than $US219 billion ($A311 billion) was warranted, based on state law, but he reduced the figure to $US25 billion ($A36 billion).

• A judge in New Mexico has ordered Meta Platforms to cough up after a jury found the company had misled consumers in a case arising from allegations that a political consulting firm involved in Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign obtained data from millions of Facebook users without their consent.

• Jurors on September 25 found that 26 of 29 statements made by the company and its leadership on those issues were misleading. They said the company had committed more than 43 million violations of New Mexico's consumer protection laws, based on the number of Facebook users or New Mexico residents who were the audience for each misleading statement.

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• 道歉 — Meta

  Meta apologized Sunday for suspending the "No Kings" Instagram account

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• Facebook's parent company Meta apologized Sunday for suspending the "No Kings" Instagram account, saying the suspension was caused by a high increase in traffic by bots.