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Former Meta engineer says Instagram took a 'don't ask, don't tell' approach on kids under 13 OAKLAND, California (AP) — A former engineering director at Meta who has testified before Congress about child safety on Instagram told jurors Wednesday at a landmark…

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Former Meta engineer says Instagram took a 'don't ask, don't tell' approach on kids under 13 OAKLAND, California (AP) — A former engineering director at Meta who has testified before Congress about child safety on Instagram told jurors Wednesday at a landmark…

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The stakes turn on whether readers accept that A former engineering director at Meta who has testified before Congress about child safety on Instagram told jurors Wednesday at a landmark trial that the company took a “don’t ask, don’t te.

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The clearest point to anchor on is this: A former engineering director at Meta who has testified before Congress about child safety on Instagram told jurors Wednesday at a landmark trial that the company took a “don’t ask, don’t tell” approach on kids under 13 on its platforms.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 6 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “A former engineering director at Meta who has testified before Congress about child safety on Instagram told jurors Wednesday at a landmark trial that the company took a “don’t ask, don’t tell” approach on kids under 13 on its platforms.”
CORROBORATED
Multiple independent sources (Flipboard, Times of Oman, The Independent) report that a former Meta engineering director testified that the company took a 'don't ask, don't tell' approach regarding users under 13.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Meta AI is a research division of Meta (formerly Facebook) that develops artificial intelligence and augmented reality technologies. It has workspaces in Menlo Park, London, New York City, Paris, Seat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_AI
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Meta Platforms, Inc. (doing business as Meta), headquartered in Menlo Park, California, is an American multinational technology company and is one of the Big Tech companies. Meta owns and operates sev…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Platforms
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Meta Quest, initially the Oculus Quest until August 2022, is a line of virtual reality headsets with augmented reality capabilities developed by Reality Labs, a division of Meta. The first-generat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Quest
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Claim 2: “In late August, AI research startup Sente Labs launched OpenExecutive, a free and open-source [AI CEO].”
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Multiple sources (GIGAZINE, claypier, and a YouTube demo from Sente Labs) confirm the launch of OpenExecutive as an open-source AI executive team by Sente Labs.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nolan Kay Bushnell (born February 5, 1943) is an American businessman and electrical engineer. He established Atari, Inc., and the Chuck E. Cheese chain. He has been inducted into the Video Game Hall …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Bushnell
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a timeline of crystallography.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_crystallography
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web search NEUTRAL — Open Executive, by Sente Labs, is the open, proactive AI executive team — on your own infrastructure.Open Executive is open source (Apache-2.0) and self-hosted. Your data stays in your environment, an…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_g97xxVTMk
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Claim 3: “the House overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legislation Wednesday aimed at shielding consumers from higher energy costs [related to AI data centers]”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of dictionary definitions of the letter 'U' and unrelated Wikipedia entries about 2026 elections in Kentucky and Texas. No evidence was provided regarding House legislation on AI data centers and energy costs.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky will be held on November 3, 2026, to elect the six U.S. representatives from the state of Kentucky, one from each of the state's c…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_House_of_Re…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas will be held on November 3, 2026, to elect the thirty-eight U.S. representatives from the state of Texas, one from each of the state'…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_House_of_Re…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) that uses generative models to generate text, images, videos, audio, software code or other forms of data. Thes…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_AI
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Claim 4: “One hotspot is Dare County, N.C., where more than 30 homes have collapsed since 2020, including one as recently as this summer.”
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While NPR explicitly states that 'more than 30 homes have collapsed since 2020', The Weather Network reports 'Nineteen beachfront homes have collapsed in Dare County... in the past five years', and WTVD reports 'the 9th to collapse into the ocean since 2020'. The numbers vary significantly across sources.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Virginia Dare (August 18, 1587 – unknown) was the first English child to be born in an American English colony. She was born to members of the Roanoke Colony. What became of Virginia and the other col…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Dare
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Avon is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Dare County in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 832.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avon,_North_Carolina
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dare County is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the southernmost county in the Hampton Roads Combined Statistical Area (CSA). As of the 2020 census, the population was 36…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dare_County,_North_Carolina
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Claim 5: “Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data”
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While multiple sources confirm that Iranian drone strikes hit Amazon (AWS) data centers in the UAE and Bahrain, none of the provided evidence explicitly confirms the 'permanent loss of customer data'. The sources focus on the strikes and the exposure of cloud vulnerabilities, but do not verify the specific claim of permanent data loss.
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web search NEUTRAL — Iranian drone strikes hit two Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers in the UAE and damaged a third facility in Bahrain.
https://www.aol.com/news/iranian-drone-strikes-amazon-data-1…
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web search NEUTRAL — Both affected data centers became targets for the Islamic Republic of Iran after the United States and Israel launched strikes on that country in February of this year. Months later, the Bahraini data…
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/amaz…
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web search NEUTRAL — Amazon doesn’t typically disclose the exact number of data centers it operates around the world. It says only that its data centers are clustered in 39 geographic regions, with three such regions in t…
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/mar/3/iranian-stri…
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Claim 6: “Consumer analytics company J.D. Power has published its annual airport satisfaction study.”
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Three independent web sources confirm that J.D. Power publishes an annual airport satisfaction study, specifically mentioning the 2025 North American Airport Satisfaction Study.
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web search NEUTRAL — Last month, J.D. Power released its annual North American Airport Satisfaction Study for 2025. Mega airports are defined as those with 33 million or more passengers per year. The 2025 study is based o…
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cnbc-make-it_last-month-jd-po…
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web search NEUTRAL — Consumer analytics company J.D. Power has published its annual airport satisfaction study.The study divides airports into the categories of mega, large and medium with the major category requiring pas…
https://www.thestreet.com/travel/the-airport-with-the-least-…
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web search NEUTRAL — J.D. Power has released its annual airport satisfaction study, ranking America’s airports based on seven factors, including ease of travel and food and beverage options.
https://www.livenowfox.com/news/jd-power-best-worst-airports…
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