Meta Platforms News - October 15, 2026
Meta's Criminal Drug-Sales Probe Reportedly Sidelined After Legal Push
Senior Justice Department officials have reportedly sidelined a long-running criminal grand jury investigation into whether Meta Platforms' social media sites...
Meta Adds Right to Scrape Business Websites, Including for AI Training
Meta Platforms will update its commercial terms of service effective October 30, 2026, explicitly granting itself the right to scrape data from websites...
Meta Calls Muse Spark Open Its Most Capable U.S. Open-Weight Model
Meta says Muse Spark Open is the most capable U.S. open-weight AI model to date. [2, 12] The multimodal model has 816 billion total parameters. [2] It has 42...
Meta Faces Questions Over $6.6 Billion in Claimed AI Data-Center Tax Credits
Seven Democratic senators on the Senate Finance Committee have written to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg questioning the company’s use of the federal Research and...
Appeals Court Lets Florida Enforce Social Media Ban for Under-14s
A U.S. federal appeals court on Wednesday reversed a lower court injunction, allowing Florida to enforce a law barring children under 14 from having social...