174 stories tagged meta, newest first.
403 points by vrganj | 320 comments
News article reporting that advocacy groups filed evidence with Brazil's Superior Electoral Court alleging Meta's platforms and Meta AI favor Flávio Bolsonaro over Lula.
139 points by nidnogg | 57 comments
Al Jazeera news report that Meta employees acknowledged in internal messages that Lula's Instagram accounts were restricted during Brazil's election while Bolsonaro's were recommended.
44 points by JKCalhoun | 74 comments
New York Times article on Mark Zuckerberg pushing Meta to shield him from California's proposed wealth tax; the capture shows a bot-block page.
170 points by DeepLogin | 37 comments
New Mexico Department of Justice press release announcing a $25 billion civil penalty against Facebook in its Cambridge Analytica consumer protection case.
634 points by cbg0 | 418 comments
CNBC news article reporting that a New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay a $25 billion penalty in a Cambridge Analytica-related data privacy case.
418 points by robtherobber | 528 comments
Techdirt article by Mike Masnick arguing the brief suspension of the No Kings Instagram account shows why activists shouldn't rely on Meta's platforms.
367 points by gumby | 176 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that Meta's Muse AI agent exposed shared conversations via discoverable subdomain URLs, prompting Meta to suspend the sharing feature.
417 points by AshleysBrain | 406 comments
A Mastodon post by Ashley Gullen reporting that Facebook Pages now require a paid subscription to post more than two links per month; the page returned a 429 error.
237 points by jumpocelot | 127 comments
EFE news report on Lula supporters protesting outside Meta in Brazil, accusing the company of electoral interference.
692 points by ds | 200 comments
Redact blog post reporting that WhatsApp help pages contained hidden instructions telling AI models not to recommend contacting a regulator.
75 points by stokedmartin | 31 comments
Engineering at Meta blog post describing Prometheus, Meta's gigawatt-scale AI supercluster and the data center and networking work behind it.
534 points by rzk | 650 comments
An Ask HN thread asking how engineers cope with shipping AI-generated code they don't fully understand, citing a Meta engineer's LinkedIn post.
110 points by evolve2k | 94 comments
The Verge report on popular websites blocking AI agents from OpenAI, Meta, and Google from accessing and acting on their services.
214 points by DeepLogin | 60 comments
Nieman Lab article reporting legal experts' view that Meta's revised terms of service still grant broad permissions to use scraped content for advertising and business products.
392 points by DeepLogin | 200 comments
MeidasNews article reporting that Meta took down the No Kings Instagram account during a nationwide protest day; the page shows an access-restricted bot block.
429 points by 0in | 155 comments
Nieman Lab article reporting that Meta's new commercial terms, effective October 30, let Meta scrape websites of business accounts using Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp.
884 points by bigwheels | 446 comments
Meta research blog post announcing Muse Spark Open, an open-weight large language model Meta calls the most capable US open-weight model to date.
38 points by meetpateltech | 1 comments
Meta blog post announcing Muse Spark Open, an open-weight AI model billed as the most capable US open-weight model to date.
356 points by sunshowers | 132 comments
A short blog post arguing that Anthropic's Scion version control system borrows its "derived data" concept for blame and history from Meta's Mononoke.
18 points by eustoria | 4 comments
SFGATE opinion column by Ariana Bindman arguing that Meta's AI product Muse, a round-the-clock digital assistant, is a parasitic trap users should avoid.
10 points by richardttang | 2 comments
The Inference article reporting that Meta's Muse agent app saw daily-user growth fall 62% in three weeks while insiders made 172 stock sales and no purchases.
637 points by meetpateltech | 341 comments
A Meta AI research blog page announcing "Muse Wonder," presented with an animated text intro and a video.
321 points by speckx | 303 comments
News article on Meta and Microsoft limiting employee use of Anthropic's Claude AI; the captured page shows only a Cloudflare security verification screen.
9 points by penskymaterial | 1 comments
TIME article reporting that Meta's Muse AI agent compiles detailed personal profiles on its users, raising privacy concerns.
342 points by beardyw | 229 comments
Techdirt article by Karl Bode criticizing Meta's agentic AI product Muse for privacy and security failures, including a zero-day flaw and harmful autonomous actions.
120 points by young_mete | 160 comments
A Substack newsletter post by product designer Mete Polat arguing that Meta's Muse shows design matters in consumer AI for companies with the money to invest.
373 points by Anon84 | 670 comments
Fortune article reporting Yann LeCun saying he has zero concerns about AI causing human extinction and calling Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei deluded.
33 points by STRiDEX | 34 comments
Blog post by Scott Cooper arguing Meta's Muse AI assistant is more useful for scraping data from Reddit and YouTube and cheap AI tokens than as a personal assistant.
214 points by gmays | 165 comments
New York Times article on how Meta uses AI data center investments to avoid billions in federal taxes; the capture shows a captcha page.
122 points by dkobia | 20 comments
AppleInsider news article reporting that Meta's new Muse AI agent ignores user permission settings.
324 points by diek | 264 comments
Reuters report that MongoDB's CEO is stepping down to lead an enterprise platform at Meta; the captured page shows only a device verification screen.
357 points by rbanffy | 250 comments
A Reddit r/worldnews thread on Meta blocking Brazilian President Lula's Facebook page and campaign ads two weeks before the election; the page loaded as a Reddit block screen.
348 points by pseudolus | 94 comments
CBS News report that a New Mexico jury found Facebook liable for deceiving users about privacy protections related to the Cambridge Analytica data breach.
543 points by pieterr | 319 comments
Reddit post in r/facebook claiming Meta took down a critical video about its Meta AI Glasses that was filmed at Meta; page blocked by Reddit network security.
458 points by polymorph1sm | 416 comments
Meta product page announcing Meta VR Glasses, coming Spring 2027 for $1,299, with an email signup form for launch notifications.
97 points by pavel_lishin | 40 comments
Ars Technica article reporting a serious zero-day vulnerability in Meta's Muse AI assistant, including a ClickFix attack that can hijack the agent.
26 points by grep_it | 2 comments
Meta engineering blog post describing Delta, an internal highly available, strongly consistent storage service built on chain replication.
602 points by yusufozkan | 205 comments
An Effort investigation alleging that Israeli Effective Altruist firm Irregular caused unsecured AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta to hack real targets.
638 points by yks | 703 comments
Meta's product landing page introducing Muse, a personal AI agent app for Android and iOS that performs tasks for users.
360 points by speckx | 212 comments
TorrentFreak article on Strike 3 Holdings seeking to tie a John Doe torrent lawsuit against a Meta Reality Labs executive to its $446M AI training case against Meta.
670 points by bvaldivielso | 435 comments
Meta developer product page for Muse Spark 1.3, an AI model trained for agentic workflows and optimized for coding performance and reliable tool calling.
443 points by bhouston | 413 comments
Reuters news report on Meta reaching a $17 billion settlement with US states over social media harms to children.
1360 points by speckx | 295 comments
Personal blog post contrasting the prosecution of RSS co-creator Aaron Swartz for scraping with Meta's large-scale scraping facing little consequence.
430 points by robtherobber | 284 comments
ABC News Verify investigation reporting that Facebook's monetization programs are paying controversial creators who produce rage-bait content.
620 points by root-parent | 577 comments
Financial Times article on Mark Zuckerberg criticizing closed AI rivals as Meta returns to releasing open AI models; the capture shows a Cloudflare security check.
1156 points by riordan | 624 comments
Meta blog post announcing Muse Glimmer, an open 30B-parameter agentic model designed to run locally on devices for always-on agent workflows.
764 points by boplicity | 407 comments
News report that a New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay $567m over harms to children's mental health from its social media platforms.
619 points by louiereederson | 279 comments
CNBC article reporting that Nvidia, Microsoft, and Meta signed a letter warning against premature restrictions on open-weight AI models.
393 points by ot | 196 comments
Meta AI blog post announcing Muse Spark 1.1, a new Meta AI model offered through a paid developer API.
638 points by HotGarbage | 232 comments
A Pluralistic blog post by Cory Doctorow about Mark Zuckerberg's and Meta's increasingly bizarre efforts against whistleblowers.
569 points by throwarayes | 495 comments
A Pragmatic Engineer newsletter deepdive by Gergely Orosz reporting on how Meta leadership's AI-driven changes are affecting its engineering organization.
643 points by speckx | 233 comments
Newsletter article reporting Meta confirmed thousands of Instagram accounts without 2FA were hijacked by tricking its Meta AI chatbot into resetting passwords.
691 points by reconnecting | 654 comments
BBC News article reporting that Meta employees can opt out of workplace tracking only for 30-minute periods at a time.
2099 points by ssiddharth | 466 comments
Blog post describing an Instagram account takeover wave, including the Obama White House account, reportedly done by abusing Meta's AI support bot.
1002 points by giuliomagnifico | 427 comments
ALQST article reporting that Meta has blocked human rights organizations' accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
383 points by JumpCrisscross | 411 comments
New York Times article about how Meta's push to embrace AI is affecting employee morale; the capture shows a captcha page instead of the article.
373 points by spankibalt | 337 comments
Variety news article on a publishers' lawsuit, including author Scott Turow, alleging Mark Zuckerberg personally authorized Meta's copyright infringement in training AI models.
426 points by gorbachev | 315 comments
BBC News article on a row at Meta after contract workers who said they saw smart glasses footage of users having sex lost their jobs.
365 points by yakkomajuri | 260 comments
CNBC news article reporting that China's state planner has blocked Meta's $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus, asking both companies to withdraw the deal.
765 points by Vaslo | 798 comments
News report that Meta told employees it will cut about 10% of its workforce, roughly 8,000 jobs, in a push for efficiency.
737 points by dlx | 491 comments
Reuters report, shown via Economic Times, that Meta is installing software to capture US employees' mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes to train AI agents.
540 points by giuliomagnifico | 219 comments
Axios scoop reporting that Meta removed ads on its platforms soliciting plaintiffs for social media addiction lawsuits.
372 points by chabons | 351 comments
Meta AI blog post announcing Muse Spark, a new model from Meta Superintelligence Labs framed as a step toward personal superintelligence.
737 points by macleginn | 485 comments
The Times article about Sarah Wynn-Williams, author of the Meta memoir "Careless People", being barred from making negative statements about Meta.
368 points by Philadelphia | 182 comments
Philadelphia Inquirer article reporting that Philadelphia's First Judicial District will ban smart eyeglasses in courts to protect witnesses and jurors from intimidation.
418 points by mrjaeger | 201 comments
New York Times article on a verdict finding Meta and YouTube negligent in a landmark social media addiction trial; the page loaded a captcha instead.
391 points by testrun | 205 comments
BBC News article reporting that Meta has been ordered to pay $375m for misleading users about child safety on its platforms.
412 points by billfor | 499 comments
CNN Business article reporting that a New Mexico jury found Meta liable in a case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms.
754 points by doener | 376 comments
Gadget Review article on a Reddit researcher's findings that Meta funds a $2B lobbying push for app-store age verification laws targeting Apple and Google.
495 points by hahahacorn | 226 comments
Engineering at Meta blog post announcing Meta's renewed investment in and commitment to maintaining the open-source jemalloc memory allocator.
344 points by mindracer | 177 comments
Instagram Help Center article on end-to-end encryption, noting E2E encrypted messaging will no longer be supported after May 8, 2026.
1168 points by shaicoleman | 483 comments
A GitHub repository compiling findings on Meta Platforms' lobbying, dark money funding, and the App Store Accountability Act, though the capture showed a Reddit network block page.
522 points by mmayberry | 356 comments
Axios exclusive reporting that Meta has hired the two founders behind Moltbook, a social network for AI agents.
585 points by helloplanets | 470 comments
Wired article reporting that former Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun raised $1 billion for his startup AMI to build AI that understands the physical world.
393 points by askl | 220 comments
TorrentFreak article reporting Meta's argument in a lawsuit that uploading pirated books via BitTorrent while training AI models qualifies as fair use.
1371 points by sandbach | 772 comments
Svenska Dagbladet article on Meta's AI smart glasses and privacy concerns, with workers reviewing footage saying they see everything.
1416 points by npilk | 777 comments
A personal blog post arguing that Facebook is now dominated by AI-generated slop content and has been abandoned by younger users.
413 points by speckx | 231 comments
A Tech Oversight Project report arguing Mark Zuckerberg's 2024 Senate testimony was contradicted by unsealed documents, released ahead of social media addiction trials.
693 points by danso | 748 comments
Politico Europe article on the EU's push to make social media platforms like TikTok and Meta end addictive design features such as infinite scrolling.
399 points by geox | 307 comments
News article on a US trial where jurors heard claims that Meta and Google engineered addictive platforms; the page shows only a Cloudflare security check.
599 points by yellow_lead | 318 comments
Phoronix news article reporting that Meta uses the SCX-LAVD Linux scheduler, originally built for Valve's Steam Deck, on its large servers.
363 points by FreeQueso | 187 comments
A satirical Substack post framed as a credit rating report on how Meta keeps $27 billion in data center debt off its balance sheet.
347 points by binning | 146 comments
TIME article reporting on court filings alleging Meta downplayed risks its platforms posed to children and misled the public.
562 points by pseudolus | 224 comments
Reuters article on US court filings alleging Meta buried internal causal evidence that its social media platforms harm users; page showed a captcha verification.
365 points by DearAll | 332 comments
Windows Latest article reporting that Meta replaced the native WhatsApp app for Windows 11 with a WebView-based wrapper that uses about 1GB of RAM.
790 points by MindBreaker2605 | 606 comments
RTTNews article on Nasdaq reporting that Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun will leave to launch a startup focused on world models.
635 points by donohoe | 472 comments
Sherwood News brief on a Reuters report that internal Meta documents projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from scam ads and banned goods.
665 points by saikatsg | 162 comments
Blog post by PyTorch co-creator Soumith Chintala announcing his departure from Meta and the PyTorch project, dated November 6, 2025.
360 points by jarbus | 42 comments
PyTorch blog post from Meta introducing Monarch, a framework moving beyond multi-controller SPMD for heterogeneous, asynchronous, fault-tolerant ML workflows.
425 points by Lionga | 349 comments
The Verge news article reporting Meta is cutting 600 jobs in its AI division while still hiring for its superintelligence team, citing Axios.