Meta News & Updates
Last updated September 10, 2026
Google lowers its search profile eligibility threshold to 35k followers on YouTube, Instagram, or X and 100k on TikTok
Alibaba says its Qwen open-weight models passed 3B downloads in six months, far ahead of Google’s and Meta’s 2026 totals
Meta’s personal AI agent vision asks users to hand over health, home, and financial data to the company they trust least
uBlock Origin stops maintaining its Facebook ad filters, so ads will return each time Meta engineers around one of them
Facebook opens its standalone Creator Studio app to all iOS creators in the US and Canada after a June waitlist launch
Meta goes to trial in Oakland against 29 state attorneys general over claims it built Facebook and Instagram to addict kids
Mark Zuckerberg publishes a 6,000-word essay arguing for open-weight AI and against regulation as Meta releases its Muse Glimmer model
Meta adds exclusion-only custom audiences, a customer list that can suppress ads but can never be flipped back to targeting
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth tells staff to stop asking about the cancelled Meta Days time-off program and calls the request very dumb
Meta says the crew aboard Zuckerberg’s superyacht never heard the Coast Guard call from a skiff that ran out of fuel off Alaska
TikTok leads on brand deals overall but loses the highest-earning creators to Instagram, per a survey of 5,000 creators
Manus resumes operating independently after Chinese regulators forced Meta to unwind its $2B deal, and users must back up data
Meta pays Australian far-right pages and an anti-vaccine group through Facebook’s invitation-only Content Monetization program
Meta’s creator program pays Indonesian accounts that fill US and Australian political Facebook groups with AI-generated content
A New Mexico judge rules Facebook and Instagram a “public nuisance” and orders Meta to pay $567 million to abate the harm
Meta launches Muse Code, its first coding agent, and competes with Anthropic and OpenAI on price rather than capability
Parents of four children who died by suicide sue Meta, Google, TikTok, and Snap in Delaware over addictive platform design
Meta ran paid ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery for nine months, some of them inside its own Ad Library
Meta says buyers have offered a premium to rent its AI compute as its free cash flow drops 91% on a $31.1B capex quarter
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