Innovation economy washingtonpost.com/food/2026…

“After four decades in the skilled trades, I've never seen an industry do more for workers than data centers.” -Don Slaiman of IBEW Local 26 richmond.com/opinion/column/…

Operation Central Valley Blues: • 146 arrests • Over $7.4 million in narcotics seized • 43 firearms recovered • Hundreds of thousands in illegal proceeds intercepted @Meta is proud to have supported this massive, 38 agency effort to help keep communities safe.

We have continued to dig into the root cause here and would like to offer an update. Our engineering team discovered that the spike that triggered the incorrect enforcement was primarily in the account’s “reading” behavior. Specifically, our network security systems detected the use of a Claude tool reading profiles, posts, and hashtags, the rate of which sharply increased (~4x volume) in intense bursts on October 17. These abrupt, high-volume, sequential requests in a short period resembled automated bot traffic rather than an ordinary human browsing our systems. This activity caused our automated protections to incorrectly take the No Kings Instagram account offline. An automated re-review of the removal action an hour later recognized that shouldn’t have happened and restored the account. It unfortunately took additional time for us to straighten out the situation with admin access to the IG account. We want to reiterate our sincere apology for the error.

When accounts post, share or comment at very high frequencies it can trigger automated systems. That's what happened with the No Kings IG account in the lead up to today's day of action. Unfortunately, that automated action was clearly taken in error. Everything is now working as it should and we sincerely apologize.

The crawling terms we consolidated only applies to our ads and business products, and we've now clarified that in the terms themselves. As we said, how Meta uses web crawlers isn’t changing, nor is how content owners can use robots.txt to signal preferences. These updates don't give us new rights to supersede such preferences and this isn’t about scraping news sites. m.facebook.com/legal/self_se…

This is false. There's no change to how Meta uses web crawlers. As always, content owners can use robots.txt flags to indicate their preferences. This update is designed to make sure we’re able to pull accurate information about products for sale on third-party websites when making on-platform ad and content recommendations, not about scraping news sites.

Shawntina Gibson from Lafayette, La., a Navy and Army National Guard veteran who lost her vision when she contracted an eye disease, ran the Army Ten-Miler race in DC last weekend with the help of Oakley Meta AI glasses. thenewsstar.com/story/news/l…

Meta + Apple + the most capable US open-weight model to date

🚨Meta worked with 14 tech companies and 10 law enforcement agencies to disrupt West Africa-based criminal scam networks. The operation rescued 117 trafficked individuals who were forced to perpetrate investment, impersonation, and romance scams. 🚨 about.fb.com/news/2026/10/me…

Mayor Dean O'Connor of @CityofAltoonaIA, home of a Meta data center facility for over a decade: "The benefits of this project extend beyond the facilities themselves, creating demand for construction workers, engineers, electricians, and other skilled professionals while driving investment into local land, infrastructure, and communication services."

OK, but maybe part of what this shows is reflexively negative coverage on CNN, MSNOW that misses nuance and context and discounts the huge economic benefits (eg in Richland Parish, La., sales tax revenues grew more in 2025 alone than in the last 20 years combined)

According to GrowNELA, due to the Meta project, Richland Parish has gained more annual sales tax revenue in 2025 alone than in the last 20 years combined - from $21m in 2024 to $39m in 2025 and a projected $92m at the end of 2026. businessinsider.com/meta-ai-…