Sell Me Lies, Sell Me Sweet Meta Lies

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In this week's episode, Mike and Ben cover:
• ‘It’s not like we knowingly have bad ads’: Meta on ad fraud, teen safety, and why AI will not replace agencies (uk.themedialeader.com/its-not-like-we-knowingl…) (The Media Leader)
• Instagram running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India (bbc.com/news/articles/cvgm4e0316zo) (BBC)
• Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out (wired.com/story/meta-now-lets-anyone-use-your-…) (Wired)
• At 17, She Sued Meta and Google, and Won. Now She’s Ready to Tell Her Story (bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-07-03/google-…) (Bloomberg)
And in the extended episode for Patreon supporters (patreon.com/CtrlAltSpeech), they cover:
• Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say (reuters.com/world/beijing-is-looking-curbing-o…) (Reuters)
• Fable 5 Is Back After Anthropic Irons Out Security Concerns With US Government (pcmag.com/news/fable-5-is-back-after-anthropic…) (PC Mag)
• AI Giants Are Handing Out Tons of Free Computing Power to Grab Startup Share (wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-giants-are-handing-out-tons…) (WSJ)
• Introducing Tokens to the Future: Token Grants to AI Builders (linkedin.com/pulse/introducing-tokens-future-t…) (LinkedIn)
• OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake (ft.com/content/7c803eab-8e80-4431-9a87-e943bf0…) (Financial Times)
Our fun links this week are Roost (roostsocial.app), the “slow-cial” messaging app, and PlotLines (peter-guillam123.github.io/plotlines) for visualizing classic novels on a map.
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