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Meta's updated Commercial Terms, live from October 30, allow it to crawl the websites of businesses on Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp and use the content to train its products.

Meta has launched four brand ad products. Ads Super Burst sells guaranteed reach in windows of 3 to 24 hours and is rolling out this month.

The ban took effect at once and also covers third-party campaigns that send users to TikTok. Europe is not included for now.

Google added IP matching and personalised alcohol ads in September, but neither works everywhere in the EU. We checked six changes on the platforms' help pages.

Google, OpenAI, Meta and TikTok mark AI content in different ways, and their checkers do not read each other's marks. Under the AI Act, the label on an ad is the advertiser's job.

Meta announced a batch of AI ad tools at Advertising Week New York. The biggest is a test of an assistant that edits campaigns after the advertiser signs off.

A Santa Fe jury found more than 43 million violations of state consumer law. Judge Francis Mathew will set the penalty later in October.

Optician chain Hans Anders has stopped selling Ray-Ban Meta glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium amid a privacy debate.

Justice A.F. Pokanu gave the judgment on 25 September. It was reported on 30 September.

Meta launched Forum, a separate app for Facebook Groups, in the US on 29 September. It brings an AI Ask tab and Top Voice labels.

Meta's Oversight Board overturned two decisions on 17 September and told the company to remove AI-made videos of a Scottish councillor and a Muslim campaigner.

The Regional Court in Frankfurt ruled on 16 September that Meta is liable for scam ads misusing Finanzfluss. The judgment is not final.