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Meta took down multiple accounts that were sharing AI-generated videos depicting coaches inappropriately touching and kissing young athletes. The company had initially determined the content did not violate its community standards before reversing course and removing it.
Facebook accounts are posting AI-generated, near-photorealistic videos depicting male coaches inappropriately touching young female gymnasts, dancers and yoga practitioners, some appearing to be teenagers. Users who reported the content say Meta has declined to remove it, even though the clips depict groping, kissing and touching framed as normal interactions between coaches and athletes. A safe-sport advocate quoted in the report calls the material abuse content that sexualizes and normalizes real power imbalances in youth sports.
Anthropic has reportedly been suspending or blocking users whose activity suggests they are using Claude's outputs to train or improve other large language models, a practice known as distillation. The company built Claude using large volumes of web-scraped text, books, code and forum content, but is now restricting others from using its own outputs in similar ways.
Bluesky is launching a beta feature called the moderation inbox, which centralizes reports users have filed, actions taken against their accounts, and their standing on the platform. Users can enable it via beta features in Settings, and it lets people appeal most moderation decisions directly in the app, though account suspensions still require action at the login screen.
YouTube is piloting a new process for channels facing termination over spam policy violations, giving eligible creators 30 days to fix or remove offending videos, or wipe their entire video library, to avoid losing their channel. Channels in this locked period cannot upload new videos or post comments, but creators who clear out their libraries keep their subscriber count, channel handle, and monetization status.
Bluesky is preventing users from opening links to a leaked archive, published by Distributed Denial of Secrets, containing records on over 41,000 DHS employees and contractors, including names, contact details and internal group affiliations. The platform labels the links "malicious" and says it blocked access to the files rather than removing individual posts, citing violations of its rule against sharing personal contact information without consent. The DDoSecrets homepage itself remains accessible, and at least one third-party app built on Bluesky's network still allows the archive link to load without warning.
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion for violating the state's Unfair Practices Act by misleading users about its data handling, in a case tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal that began in 2021. The penalty follows a jury verdict in Meta's favor for the state in September, and Meta says it will appeal. The company's chief legal officer called the ruling an effective tax on speech that would make doing business in New Mexico unworkable.
Apple revised its developer guidelines over the weekend to prohibit apps that use AI to generate offensive content, including those that hide 'nudification' features during review and reveal them only after approval. The company said apps with user-generated content must filter objectionable material, allow reporting of abuse, and let users block accounts, and it strengthened legal language against apps enabling human trafficking or child exploitation.
LinkedIn is deploying its own AI model, trained by a team of former journalists and social media experts, to detect and limit the reach of generic AI-written posts, according to CNN. A Pangram research report found over 40% of long-form LinkedIn posts are AI-generated, higher than on X, Medium, Reddit or Substack. LinkedIn also added a button letting users flag suspected AI slop, which was clicked more than 1 million times in its first two weeks after launching in August.
Apple has revised its App Store moderation policy to explicitly target apps that use AI to generate nonconsensual sexually explicit images. Developers hosting user-generated content must now filter out such imagery, let users report abuse and block accounts, and remove violating content or face removal from the store. Apple also said it will expel both apps and their developers from the Apple Developer Program if they conceal 'nudification' features during the review process.
Apple updated its App Store guidelines on Friday to explicitly require developers to prevent and remove nonconsensual sexual images generated by AI tools. The rules state developers who fail to implement safeguards or don't address violations after being notified can be removed from the App Store. Apple also clarified its 'bait-and-switch' policy to cover apps that add nudification features after approval, and reiterated that apps facilitating human trafficking or child exploitation will be pulled and blocked from alternative distribution.
A commentary on social media age-verification bans argues that minors routinely bypass these restrictions, and that calls to tighten enforcement miss the point. The authors contend that stricter age gates could push children toward less-moderated parts of the internet and require more invasive collection of personal data to verify ages.