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Director of the Tech Transparency Project, a watchdog group that researches and reports on tech companies' policies and practices.
Ads promising deepfake porn of women resembling US politicians cleared Meta's automated ad review, and the app itself sat in Apple's App Store. Both removals followed a WIRED inquiry.
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Project OT scoped cutting some teams by as much as 60 per cent and handing their work to AI agents. Meta executed a single 10 per cent layoff instead, after internal data showed the agents were not delivering the hoped-for productivity gains.
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David Chiu's four-page letter asks Meta how the ads got past moderation, how it handles repeat advertisers and what it sent to NCMEC. That turns a takedown story into a question about what Meta owed once it knew.
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The Tech Transparency Project says some of those ads were identical to ones Meta had already deleted, which makes this a repeat-upload failure in the review queue rather than a hard problem in spotting novel material.
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On August 26 Meta settled a US trial by agreeing to switch several teen safety limits on by default. Rest of World reports it is simultaneously paying parent influencers to praise those same controls where legislators are drafting bans.
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Meta's own telemetry showed its agents producing far more internal churn than shipped features, plus more incidents to clean up. That is the strongest evidence yet that agent programmes do not cash out as headcount.
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Platformer's podcast series closed with vendor CEOs still forecasting net job creation and the people running agent deployments saying the opposite. The workforce plans written on the optimists' premise are the ones now carrying risk.
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Reuters reported Meta tried to run six in ten roles as AI agents under a small expert core. The layoffs were cancelled and part of the reorg undone. The arithmetic explains why.
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A Tech Transparency Project report says Meta ran branded influencer events in more than a dozen countries to argue bans do not work. Meta says the partnerships are disclosed and lawful.
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A Tech Transparency Project report says Meta recruited creators whenever governments took up youth social-media rules. Anyone buying influencer marketing now carries political disclosure risk.
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