Global Scans · Facebook · Weekly Summary

• [New] Coordinated networks across Telegram, Facebook, and news sites used emotional manipulation and fear to influence public opinion, portraying Ukraine as a burden to the EU and framing European integration as harmful. CRC
• [New] Such a shutdown across a population of 2.1 million residents in New Mexico could silence personal communication on Meta's immensely popular platforms, which also include Facebook and WhatsApp, and also impact their use for commercial advertising. KSAT San Antonio
• SpaceX has become the Neo Cloud of Anthropic and OpenAI will have to contend with a Meta (formerly Facebook) that now is pushing subscriptions on its AI app. AI Supremacy
• AI agents will dominate internet searches, commerce and activity by 2035, disrupting the core business models of Google, Amazon and Facebook. CoinDesk
• Google, Amazon and Facebook are terrified because AI agents will not behave like humans when confronted with ads. CoinDesk
• Google and YouTube together will bring in $229.42 billion in digital ad revenues in 2026, nearly matching Meta's combined Facebook and Instagram numbers for the first time. CompaniesHistory.com
• CBDC may head off the threat to monetary sovereignty from stablecoins issued by global digital services companies like Facebook, which would threaten central banks' ability to conduct monetary policy. CEPR
• In the UK, Facebook will soon have to follow new rules under the Online Safety Act meaning it must notify news publishers if it plans to take action against any of their content and give them an opportunity to make representations. Press Gazette
• Although Alphabet shares rose, Meta shares tumbled, a sign of investor concerns about the Facebook-parent's massive AI spending without a clear new revenue opportunity or cloud computing business. CNBC
• Space-based Facebook power: Meta, Facebook's parent company, reached an agreement to purchase a gigawatt of power from Overview Energy, which plans to build a constellation of satellites that will beam energy to solar panels on Earth at night time using near-infrared lasers. Forbes
• Last year, Meta started using private generative AI conversations to personalize content and customize ad recommendations for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger users, so there seems to be little limit on the data that it will use to generate revenue. MacRumors

Last updated: 14 June 2026