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Power & Surveillance

Nov 9, 2026//4 MIN

Instagram's AI now guesses your age everywhere. Meta won't say how often it's wrong

Meta is rolling its teen-spotting AI out worldwide, moving suspected under-18s into restricted accounts even if they claimed an adult birthday. It has published no error rate.

#surveillance#meta#age-verification

Power & Surveillance

Nov 2, 2026//4 MIN

The pet portrait app was a front. 400 more like it hid a deepfake factory

Language tutors, workout coaches and cute pet filters passed App Store review, then quietly turned into sexual deepfake generators for the right users. Meta's ad system brought in the customers.

#apple#deepfakes#meta

Power & Surveillance

Oct 17, 2026//4 MIN

Meta deleted one word from its scraping terms. Publishers say that's not enough

New commercial terms would let Meta crawl any site tied to a business account, and they briefly said 'train.' Meta took the word out. The terms still go live Oct. 30.

#meta#publishers#scraping