Meta News & Updates
Last updated October 25, 2026
Meta’s new terms make advertisers solely responsible for its AI ad edits from Oct. 30, as agencies pull ads it changed unasked
Meta is ordered to pay New Mexico $25B for misleading Facebook users about data privacy after the Cambridge Analytica scandal
TikTok shifts its ad budget to YouTube, Pinterest, and app ad networks after Meta blocks ByteDance ads in seven countries
Meta lets advertisers assign an age range and gender to each ad creative in an ad set through a new Marketing API option
Meta’s Muse agent tops 10 million setups in six weeks, with shopping as its biggest use, but Zuckerberg says it’s costly to run
Meta creates non-voting Class C shares it can sell to fund AI spending without diluting Mark Zuckerberg’s control of the company
Cuttable raises $20M Series A led by Airtree Ventures to build Meta and TikTok ads from brands’ existing photos and videos
Meta is ordered to name every employee and executive who approved torrenting pirated books from shadow libraries to train AI
Meta chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan is leaving after 15 years, months after Dina Powell McCormick became Meta president
Meta pauses Muse chat sharing after Claroc finds 6,800 links exposed in public DNS records, including a loan application
Meta drops the word “train” from new commercial terms that let it crawl business websites, but critics say little has changed
WhatsApp help pages exposed hidden instructions telling Meta’s support chatbot not to point users to privacy regulators
Meta launches Ads Super Burst, letting brands book 3- to 24-hour Facebook and Instagram windows that can lock out category rivals
Australia’s communications minister expects eSafety to sue Meta, TikTok, Snap, and YouTube over breaches of the under-16 ban
Meta apologizes for taking the No Kings Instagram account offline and blames a Claude tool that it mistook for bot traffic
Meta to send ad clicks to in-app product pages by default starting October 28
OnlyFans creators ask why Meta’s Muse can sext, but humans can’t post sexual content
OnlyFans creators question why Meta lets its Muse AI agent sext adult users while it keeps restricting their Instagram accounts
Meta’s Muse agent sends a user an unprompted message about checking his Gmail, which Meta blames on a bug it has since fixed
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