Meta News & Updates
Last updated September 9, 2026
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg privately told Trump he opposes the White House’s plan for a FINRA-style national AI regulator
Meta stops grading employees on how much AI they use, dropping token counts and AI Native labels from performance reviews
Meta will ask the Supreme Court to review Washington’s political ad disclosure law after a nearly $25M state court loss
Meta discounts Muse Spark by about 95% for customers who agree to let it train on their prompts and the model’s outputs
Meta launches bill payments on WhatsApp in India, connecting 22,722 billers across 30 categories through Bharat Connect
MEPs press von der Leyen to force Meta’s US teen protections onto Europe and float suspending Facebook and Instagram in the EU
Instagram renames its AI creator label to AI-generated profile and will cut the reach of accounts that fail to apply it
Meta’s paid Teen Accounts campaign in India runs through an actor who kept his own twins off social media until they turned 16
73 of the top 100 creators boosted by Temu’s partnership ads on Meta in Europe are likely fake accounts, per Online Risk Labs
Instagram reaches 297 million EU users against Facebook’s 264 million as Meta cuts its EU moderation staff to about 5,900
Meta is testing its personal agent Hatch with employees
Meta is taking its fight to bring down YouTube and TikTok to traditional media with full-page newspaper ads
Meta settles with the U.S. states for “maybe $18B” and a few teen restrictions
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Meta runs full-page newspaper ads pressing TikTok and YouTube to adopt the teen safety limits it agreed to in its settlement
Chamber of Commerce backs Meta at the D.C. Circuit, arguing the FTC’s theory would mean an acquisition is never truly final
Meta became one of Anthropic’s largest customers while Zuckerberg attacked AI labs, projecting up to $10B a year on its models
Poland asks the European Commission to fine Meta €250M after it refused to pull 106 of 122 ads flagged as fraudulent
Meta explored cutting some teams by up to 60% to go AI native before Zuckerberg killed the second wave hours before the first
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