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Facebook (Meta Platforms)

A public social-media, messaging, VR, and advertising company behind Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads, and Meta ads. Facebook (Meta Platforms) scores low because surveillance advertising, documented privacy and discrimination harms, youth-capture risk, and shareholder-controlled governance outweigh the practical utility of its communications tools.

Why this matters: Facebook is the familiar consumer face of Meta’s private rule-setting power over social life, messaging, identity, ads, and political attention.

Letter grade F Malignant High confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1 Last reviewed May 6, 2026

Final Score -41* F - Malignant

FMALIGNANT-41 pts

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

Base Material16

Bonus+0

Cap35Ownership <= 2 and Governance <= 2

After Cap16

Penalties-57

Private Government badge

Meta Platforms receives the Private Government badge because it combines large-scale private rule-setting over customers, workers, users, members, or counterparties with OpenLobby-documented lobbying of about $168.9M on public policy issues.

Evidence: [20]

Policy Capture: L for Lobbying

The L badge appears when the Policy Capture penalty is severe. Here, L stands for Lobbying: the policy-capture value is -15, meaning the evidence indicates major private-interest lobbying or policy pressure against workers, customers, citizens, affected communities, democratic accountability, or ecological life.

Evidence: [19]

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Evaluation Overview

F - Malignant

The score turns mainly on Market Conduct, with the largest penalty coming from Policy Capture.

Strengths

Market Conduct3/5
Ownership2/10
Extraction2/10

Penalties

Policy Capture-15
Human Harm-14
Reversibility-5
Ecological Harm-5

Evidence state

ConfidenceHigh confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
Linked claims20
Direct axis claims19
Coverage18/18

Scoring Axes

Axis	Score	Why this score
Ownership ? Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control at 10.	2 / 10	Meta Platforms is a publicly traded corporation with dual-class governance and founder control over voting power. Meta Platforms is a publicly traded corporation with dual-class governance and founder control over voting power. That keeps Meta Platforms low on Ownership: decisive control remains with shareholders, private owners, executives, or state insiders rather than affected people. The value is above zero only where the linked record still shows some real function, constraint, or public value on this axis. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 78 scored entries below, 21 tied, 127 above on Ownership. Linked evidence context Meta Platforms is a publicly traded corporation with dual-class governance and founder control over voting power. [1] context The FTC imposed a $5 billion penalty and privacy restrictions on Facebook over privacy violations and user-control failures. [2] context The DOJ secured a settlement with Meta over allegations that Facebook's housing advertising system discriminated in violation of fair housing law. [3] Meta's 2025 proxy describes Class B holdings and voting power associated with Mark Zuckerberg and related entities, making decisive control insider-weighted rather than broadly held by users, workers, or affected communities. [4]
Governance ? Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic stakeholder control at 10.	1 / 10	Meta Platforms is a publicly traded corporation with dual-class governance and founder control over voting power. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 2 scored entries below, 68 tied, 156 above on Governance. Linked evidence Meta Platforms is a publicly traded corporation with dual-class governance and founder control over voting power. [1]
Extraction ? Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured extraction judgment.	2 / 10	Meta Platforms is a publicly traded corporation with dual-class governance and founder control over voting power. Meta Platforms is a publicly traded corporation with dual-class governance and founder control over voting power. That keeps Meta Platforms low on Extraction: the business model makes extraction from workers, users, suppliers, customers, or the public central rather than incidental. The value is above zero only where the linked record still shows some real function, constraint, or public value on this axis. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 20 scored entries below, 18 tied, 188 above on Extraction. Linked evidence context Meta Platforms is a publicly traded corporation with dual-class governance and founder control over voting power. [1] context The FTC imposed a $5 billion penalty and privacy restrictions on Facebook over privacy violations and user-control failures. [2] context The DOJ secured a settlement with Meta over allegations that Facebook's housing advertising system discriminated in violation of fair housing law. [3] The FTC privacy penalty and Meta's advertising-centered platform family show extraction from user attention and data as a structural feature, not an incidental revenue stream. [5]
Labor Sovereignty ? Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at 7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling, retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of worker voice, or extreme turnover.	2 / 7	Meta Platforms is a publicly traded corporation with dual-class governance and founder control over voting power. Meta Platforms is a publicly traded corporation with dual-class governance and founder control over voting power. That keeps Meta Platforms low on Labor Sovereignty: labor remains managerially controlled, replaceable, or exposed to coercive employment and contracting conditions. The value is above zero only where the linked record still shows some real function, constraint, or public value on this axis. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 8 scored entries below, 36 tied, 182 above on Labor Sovereignty. Linked evidence context Meta Platforms is a publicly traded corporation with dual-class governance and founder control over voting power. [1] context The FTC imposed a $5 billion penalty and privacy restrictions on Facebook over privacy violations and user-control failures. [2] context The DOJ secured a settlement with Meta over allegations that Facebook's housing advertising system discriminated in violation of fair housing law. [3] Meta's dual-class, executive-controlled public-company structure gives workers no direct ownership or formal governance control over the institutional choices that shape its platforms and labor conditions. [6]
Solidarity with the Unemployed ? Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment, and non-competes.	1 / 7	Meta Platforms is a publicly traded corporation with dual-class governance and founder control over voting power. Meta Platforms is a publicly traded corporation with dual-class governance and founder control over voting power. That keeps Meta Platforms low on Solidarity with the Unemployed: the model provides little protection for people who leave, are excluded, or cannot bargain from employment. The value is above zero only where the linked record still shows some real function, constraint, or public value on this axis. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 3 scored entries below, 27 tied, 196 above on Solidarity with the Unemployed. Linked evidence context Meta Platforms is a publicly traded corporation with dual-class governance and founder control over voting power. [1] context The FTC imposed a $5 billion penalty and privacy restrictions on Facebook over privacy violations and user-control failures. [2] context The DOJ secured a settlement with Meta over allegations that Facebook's housing advertising system discriminated in violation of fair housing law. [3] The DOJ housing-ad settlement is solidarity evidence because Meta's ad-delivery system allegedly disadvantaged protected groups seeking housing access, showing weak protection for people outside the platform's most powerful user and advertiser classes. [7]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity ? Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and public obligations.	1 / 7	Meta's privacy and discrimination cases provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment the company repeatedly preserved engagement and ad-system scale while externalizing privacy and civil-rights risks. Meta's privacy and discrimination cases provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment the company repeatedly preserved engagement and ad-system scale while externalizing privacy and civil-rights risks. That keeps Meta Platforms low on Loss-Bearing Fidelity: losses, hazards, or adjustment costs are routinely pushed onto workers, customers, suppliers, communities, or the public. The value is above zero only where the linked record still shows some real function, constraint, or public value on this axis. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 12 scored entries below, 20 tied, 194 above on Loss-Bearing Fidelity. Linked evidence context Meta Platforms is a publicly traded corporation with dual-class governance and founder control over voting power. [1] context The FTC imposed a $5 billion penalty and privacy restrictions on Facebook over privacy violations and user-control failures. [2] context The DOJ secured a settlement with Meta over allegations that Facebook's housing advertising system discriminated in violation of fair housing law. [3] Meta's privacy and discrimination cases provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment the company repeatedly preserved engagement and ad-system scale while externalizing privacy and civil-rights risks. [8]
Market Conduct ? Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.	3 / 5	Meta Platforms is a publicly traded corporation with dual-class governance and founder control over voting power. Meta Platforms is a publicly traded corporation with dual-class governance and founder control over voting power. That places Meta Platforms in the middle of Market Conduct: the product has real value but still uses meaningful lock-in, gatekeeping, market power, or dependency. The value stays below the top tier because the linked record does not show full democratic control, non-extractive lock-in, or complete stakeholder protection on this axis. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 54 scored entries below, 51 tied, 121 above on Market Conduct. Linked evidence context Meta Platforms is a publicly traded corporation with dual-class governance and founder control over voting power. [1] context The FTC imposed a $5 billion penalty and privacy restrictions on Facebook over privacy violations and user-control failures. [2] context The DOJ secured a settlement with Meta over allegations that Facebook's housing advertising system discriminated in violation of fair housing law. [3] Meta's family of social, messaging, identity, and advertising technologies creates market conduct concerns because access to attention and audiences is mediated through a private gatekeeping platform. [9]
Product Integrity ? Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.	2 / 5	Meta Platforms is a publicly traded corporation with dual-class governance and founder control over voting power. Meta Platforms is a publicly traded corporation with dual-class governance and founder control over voting power. That places Meta Platforms in the middle of Product Integrity: the product has real use value but is compromised by incentives, monetization, lock-in, quality degradation, or risk. The value stays below the top tier because the linked record does not show full democratic control, non-extractive lock-in, or complete stakeholder protection on this axis. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 23 scored entries below, 13 tied, 190 above on Product Integrity. Linked evidence context Meta Platforms is a publicly traded corporation with dual-class governance and founder control over voting power. [1] context The FTC imposed a $5 billion penalty and privacy restrictions on Facebook over privacy violations and user-control failures. [2] context The DOJ secured a settlement with Meta over allegations that Facebook's housing advertising system discriminated in violation of fair housing law. [3] Meta's products provide communication utility, but FTC privacy enforcement and DOJ housing-ad allegations show that product integrity is compromised by privacy, targeting, and civil-rights failures in the core platform design. [10]
Scale Integrity ? Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.	2 / 5	Meta Platforms is a publicly traded corporation with dual-class governance and founder control over voting power. Meta Platforms is a publicly traded corporation with dual-class governance and founder control over voting power. That places Meta Platforms in the middle of Scale Integrity: scale brings useful reach but also weakens accountability, transparency, or local constraint. The value stays below the top tier because the linked record does not show full democratic control, non-extractive lock-in, or complete stakeholder protection on this axis. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 31 scored entries below, 18 tied, 177 above on Scale Integrity. Linked evidence context Meta Platforms is a publicly traded corporation with dual-class governance and founder control over voting power. [1] context The FTC imposed a $5 billion penalty and privacy restrictions on Facebook over privacy violations and user-control failures. [2] context The DOJ secured a settlement with Meta over allegations that Facebook's housing advertising system discriminated in violation of fair housing law. [3] Meta's large platform family gives the service broad reach, but the FTC and DOJ records show that scale amplifies privacy and civil-rights harms instead of reliably disciplining them. [11]

Penalties

Penalty	Applied	Why this penalty
Reversibility ? Applied when positive conduct depends on current living leaders, founders, family owners, or other person-contingent governance rather than durable structure. Range: -5 to 0.	-5	Meta Platforms's favorable conduct depends partly on current leaders, founders, family owners, executive discretion, or other person-contingent control rather than a fully locked democratic stakeholder-control structure. Meta Platforms's favorable conduct depends partly on current leaders, founders, family owners, executive discretion, or other person-contingent control rather than a fully locked democratic stakeholder-control structure. That warrants a severe Reversibility penalty because favorable conduct depends on current people or discretionary leadership rather than locked stakeholder structure. The value is near the floor because the conduct appears central, large-scale, repeated, or institutionally powerful rather than incidental. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 0 scored entries below, 95 tied, 131 above on Reversibility. Linked evidence context Meta Platforms is a publicly traded corporation with dual-class governance and founder control over voting power. [1] Meta Platforms's favorable conduct depends partly on current leaders, founders, family owners, executive discretion, or other person-contingent control rather than a fully locked democratic stakeholder-control structure. [12]
Human Harm ? Severity, scale, culpability, vulnerable targets, willful reoffense, reputation laundering, pattern escalation, and time decay. Range: -20 to 0.	-14	The FTC imposed a $5 billion penalty and privacy restrictions on Facebook over privacy violations and user-control failures. The FTC imposed a $5 billion penalty and privacy restrictions on Facebook over privacy violations and user-control failures. That warrants a severe Human Harm penalty because ordinary operation, documented misconduct, or institutional power creates serious injury, deprivation, abuse, or foreseeable human damage. The value is near the floor because the conduct appears central, large-scale, repeated, or institutionally powerful rather than incidental. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 16 scored entries below, 3 tied, 207 above on Human Harm. Linked evidence The FTC imposed a $5 billion penalty and privacy restrictions on Facebook over privacy violations and user-control failures. [2] The DOJ secured a settlement with Meta over allegations that Facebook's housing advertising system discriminated in violation of fair housing law. [3]
Ecological Harm ? Footprint, trajectory, irreversibility, culpability, and scale, including whether ecological harm is central to the model and continued after credible notice. Range: -30 to 0.	-5	Meta reports material data-center energy and emissions issues tied to operating its platforms at global scale. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 21 scored entries below, 11 tied, 194 above on Ecological Harm. Linked evidence Meta reports material data-center energy and emissions issues tied to operating its platforms at global scale. [13]
Policy Capture ? Private-interest attempts to bend law, regulation, subsidies, taxes, enforcement, trade, labor, safety, competition, environmental, healthcare, housing, surveillance, civil-liberties, or consumer policy against workers, customers, citizens, affected communities, or ecological life. Public-interest advocacy is not penalized merely because it is lobbying. Range: -15 to 0.	-15	OpenLobby records META PLATFORMS, INC. Linked evidence OpenLobby records META PLATFORMS, INC. AND VARIOUS SUBSIDIARIES lobbying on trade, tax, copyright / patents / trademarks, homeland security, immigration, consumer protection, and other issues with about $168.9M in spending across 34 filings; the reviewed filings document private institutional lobbying over public rules rather than a public-interest advocacy role. [19]
Youth Capture ? Manipulative youth-directed marketing, youth-data or attention monetization, collectible/add-on traps, parasocial or identity capture, surprise mechanics, or treating young people as lower-disclosure consumers. Making useful toys or welcoming children is not itself penalized. Range: -5 to 0.	-5	The FTC proposed barring Facebook/Meta from monetizing data from children and teens under 18 after alleging that the company misled parents about Messenger Kids controls and failed to comply fully with prior privacy orders. The FTC proposed barring Facebook/Meta from monetizing data from children and teens under 18 after alleging that the company misled parents about Messenger Kids controls and failed to comply fully with prior privacy orders. That warrants a severe Youth Capture penalty because young people are treated as manipulable consumers, data sources, attention targets, or culture markets. The value is near the floor because the conduct appears central, large-scale, repeated, or institutionally powerful rather than incidental. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 0 scored entries below, 2 tied, 224 above on Youth Capture. Linked evidence The FTC proposed barring Facebook/Meta from monetizing data from children and teens under 18 after alleging that the company misled parents about Messenger Kids controls and failed to comply fully with prior privacy orders. [17]
Accountability Opacity ? Material opacity, reputation laundering, or hidden accountability structures that prevent public accountability. Range: -2 to 0.	-2	The FTC privacy case is relevant to the accountability-opacity penalty because it concerns Meta/Facebook privacy representations, consent, and accountability for user data practices. The FTC privacy case is relevant to the accountability-opacity penalty because it concerns Meta/Facebook privacy representations, consent, and accountability for user data practices. That warrants a severe Accountability Opacity penalty because material facts, risks, conflicts, ownership, or accountability information are obscured from the public. The value is near the floor because the conduct appears central, large-scale, repeated, or institutionally powerful rather than incidental. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 0 scored entries below, 52 tied, 174 above on Accountability Opacity. Linked evidence The FTC privacy case is relevant to the accountability-opacity penalty because it concerns Meta/Facebook privacy representations, consent, and accountability for user data practices. [14]
Identity Capture ? Customer pressure, employee pressure, and pervasive identity saturation. Range: -3 to 0.	-3	Meta's family of social, messaging, advertising, and identity products creates pervasive customer identity pressure. Meta's family of social, messaging, advertising, and identity products creates pervasive customer identity pressure. That warrants a severe Identity Capture penalty because users, workers, customers, or publics are pressured into identity attachment that protects institutional power. The value is near the floor because the conduct appears central, large-scale, repeated, or institutionally powerful rather than incidental. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 0 scored entries below, 12 tied, 214 above on Identity Capture. Linked evidence Meta's family of social, messaging, advertising, and identity products creates pervasive customer identity pressure. [15]
Surveillance Capture ? Invasive surveillance, unreasonably non-optional tracking, facial recognition, biometric identification, or AI behavior scanning of customers, workers, bystanders, or the public. Range: -5 to 0.	-5	The FTC Facebook privacy order and Meta’s own family of identity, social, messaging, advertising, and platform products is relevant to the surveillance-capture penalty because pervasive user-data collection and behavioral targeting infrastructure. The FTC Facebook privacy order and Meta’s own family of identity, social, messaging, advertising, and platform products is relevant to the surveillance-capture penalty because pervasive user-data collection and behavioral targeting infrastructure. That warrants a severe Surveillance Capture penalty because customers, workers, users, bystanders, or the public are exposed to invasive tracking, biometrics, or behavior scanning. The value is near the floor because the conduct appears central, large-scale, repeated, or institutionally powerful rather than incidental. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 0 scored entries below, 12 tied, 214 above on Surveillance Capture. Linked evidence The FTC Facebook privacy order and Meta’s own family of identity, social, messaging, advertising, and platform products is relevant to the surveillance-capture penalty because pervasive user-data collection and behavioral targeting infrastructure. [16]
Ideological Disavowal ? Concealed ideology presented as neutrality, expertise, professional necessity, public-service administration, market inevitability, or non-ideological common sense while exercising power. Range: -3 to 0.	-3	Meta Platforms's public framing is assessed as ideological-disavowal evidence because Meta Platforms combines major gatekeeping, coercive, or infrastructural power with pronounced claims of… Meta Platforms's public framing is assessed as ideological-disavowal evidence because Meta Platforms combines major gatekeeping, coercive, or infrastructural power with pronounced claims of neutrality, administrative necessity, national legitimacy, safety, objectivity, or professional expertise. That warrants a severe Ideological Disavowal penalty because the institution presents situated, contested choices as neutrality, expertise, inevitability, safety, or common sense. The value is near the floor because the conduct appears central, large-scale, repeated, or institutionally powerful rather than incidental. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Ideological Disavowal 0 to -3 recalibration: 0 for explicit standpoint or no penalty-level neutrality theater; -1 for bounded softening of contested choices; -2 for strong neutrality theater by a powerful institution; -3 for major gatekeeping or coercive power presented as neutral, necessary, objective, or non-ideological. Uncertainty This recalibration uses public self-presentation and profile evidence; later review should add direct language-analysis evidence for high-impact institutions. Linked evidence Meta Platforms's public framing is assessed as ideological-disavowal evidence because Meta Platforms combines major gatekeeping, coercive, or infrastructural power with pronounced claims of neutrality, administrative necessity, national legitimacy, safety, objectivity, or professional expertise. [18]

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Confidence Basis

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High 87/100

19 verified linked claims 19 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 18/18 components covered

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Claim confidence 19/20

19 verified linked claims

Source quality 16/18

Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability

Direct axis-specific claims 14/18

19 direct claims across 18 active components

Dispute load 12/12

0 disputed claims on this entity

Recency 10/10

Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026

Reviewer status 7/12

Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding

Component coverage 10/10

18/18 evidence-bearing components have direct support

Evidence State

Profile stateAI draft / human-pending

VerificationUnverified

ConfidenceHigh confidence (AI)

ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)

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Claims and Sources

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1Meta Platforms is a publicly traded corporation with dual-class governance and founder control over voting power.

Governance Verified High confidence Human-reviewed May 4, 2026

Meta investor relationsOfficial self-description · 68%

2The FTC imposed a $5 billion penalty and privacy restrictions on Facebook over privacy violations and user-control failures.

Human Harm Verified High confidence Human-reviewed May 4, 2026

FTC Facebook privacy penaltyPrimary public record · 100%

3The DOJ secured a settlement with Meta over allegations that Facebook's housing advertising system discriminated in violation of fair housing law.

Human Harm Verified High confidence Human-reviewed May 4, 2026

DOJ Meta housing ads settlementPrimary public record · 100%

4Meta's 2025 proxy describes Class B holdings and voting power associated with Mark Zuckerberg and related entities, making decisive control insider-weighted rather than broadly held by users, workers, or affected communities.

Ownership Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 13, 2026

AI scaffold

Meta 2025 proxy statementPrimary public record · 100%

5The FTC privacy penalty and Meta's advertising-centered platform family show extraction from user attention and data as a structural feature, not an incidental revenue stream.

Extraction Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 13, 2026

AI scaffold

FTC Facebook privacy penaltyPrimary public record · 100%
Meta technologiesOfficial self-description · 68%

6Meta's dual-class, executive-controlled public-company structure gives workers no direct ownership or formal governance control over the institutional choices that shape its platforms and labor conditions.

Labor Sovereignty Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 13, 2026

AI scaffold

Meta 2025 proxy statementPrimary public record · 100%

7The DOJ housing-ad settlement is solidarity evidence because Meta's ad-delivery system allegedly disadvantaged protected groups seeking housing access, showing weak protection for people outside the platform's most powerful user and advertiser classes.

Solidarity Unemployed Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 13, 2026

AI scaffold

DOJ Meta housing ads settlementPrimary public record · 100%

8Meta's privacy and discrimination cases provides evidence for the relevant scoring judgment the company repeatedly preserved engagement and ad-system scale while externalizing privacy and civil-rights risks.

Loss Bearing Fidelity Verified High confidence Human-reviewed May 5, 2026

FTC Facebook privacy casePrimary public record · 100%
DOJ Meta housing ads settlementPrimary public record · 100%

9Meta's family of social, messaging, identity, and advertising technologies creates market conduct concerns because access to attention and audiences is mediated through a private gatekeeping platform.

Market Conduct Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 13, 2026

AI scaffold

Meta technologiesOfficial self-description · 68%

10Meta's products provide communication utility, but FTC privacy enforcement and DOJ housing-ad allegations show that product integrity is compromised by privacy, targeting, and civil-rights failures in the core platform design.

Product Integrity Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 13, 2026

AI scaffold

FTC Facebook privacy penaltyPrimary public record · 100%
DOJ Meta housing ads settlementPrimary public record · 100%

11Meta's large platform family gives the service broad reach, but the FTC and DOJ records show that scale amplifies privacy and civil-rights harms instead of reliably disciplining them.

Scale Integrity Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 13, 2026

AI scaffold

FTC Facebook privacy penaltyPrimary public record · 100%
DOJ Meta housing ads settlementPrimary public record · 100%

12Meta Platforms's favorable conduct depends partly on current leaders, founders, family owners, executive discretion, or other person-contingent control rather than a fully locked democratic stakeholder-control structure.

Reversibility Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed May 5, 2026

Meta investor relationsOfficial self-description · 68%

13Meta reports material data-center energy and emissions issues tied to operating its platforms at global scale.

Ecological Harm Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed May 4, 2026

Meta sustainabilityGeneral web source · 58%

14The FTC privacy case is relevant to the accountability-opacity penalty because it concerns Meta/Facebook privacy representations, consent, and accountability for user data practices.

Accountability Opacity Verified High confidence Human-reviewed May 5, 2026

FTC Facebook privacy penaltyPrimary public record · 100%

15Meta's family of social, messaging, advertising, and identity products creates pervasive customer identity pressure.

Identity Capture Verified High confidence Human-reviewed May 4, 2026

Meta technologiesOfficial self-description · 68%

16The FTC Facebook privacy order and Meta’s own family of identity, social, messaging, advertising, and platform products is relevant to the surveillance-capture penalty because pervasive user-data collection and behavioral targeting infrastructure.

Surveillance Capture Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 6, 2026

AI scaffold

FTC Facebook privacy penaltyPrimary public record · 100%
Meta technologiesOfficial self-description · 68%

17The FTC proposed barring Facebook/Meta from monetizing data from children and teens under 18 after alleging that the company misled parents about Messenger Kids controls and failed to comply fully with prior privacy orders.

Youth Capture Verified High confidence Human-reviewed May 7, 2026

FTC: proposed prohibition on Facebook monetizing youth dataPrimary public record · 100%

18Meta Platforms's public framing is assessed as ideological-disavowal evidence because Meta Platforms combines major gatekeeping, coercive, or infrastructural power with pronounced claims of neutrality, administrative necessity, national legitimacy, safety, objectivity, or professional expertise.

Ideological Disavowal Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 9, 2026

AI scaffold

Meta Platforms official siteOfficial self-description · 68%
FTC Facebook privacy penaltyPrimary public record · 100%
DOJ Meta housing ads settlementPrimary public record · 100%

19OpenLobby records META PLATFORMS, INC. AND VARIOUS SUBSIDIARIES lobbying on trade, tax, copyright / patents / trademarks, homeland security, immigration, consumer protection, and other issues with about $168.9M in spending across 34 filings; the reviewed filings document private institutional lobbying over public rules rather than a public-interest advocacy role.

Policy Capture Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 11, 2026

AI scaffold

OpenLobby — META PLATFORMS, INC. AND VARIOUS SUBSIDIARIES lobbying profileGeneral web source · 58%

20Meta Platforms receives the Private Government badge because it combines large-scale private rule-setting over customers, workers, users, members, or counterparties with OpenLobby-documented lobbying of about $168.9M on public policy issues.

Private Government Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 11, 2026

AI scaffold

OpenLobby — META PLATFORMS, INC. AND VARIOUS SUBSIDIARIES lobbying profileGeneral web source · 58%

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May 7, 2026 at 12:00 AM UTC ai-scaffolding youth-capture-assessment

Added source-backed Youth Capture penalty -5 based on evidence specific to youth data, child-directed marketing, loot-box/gambling-like monetization, or youth-culture manipulation.

May 6, 2026 at 12:00 AM UTC ai-scaffolding toxic-products-assessment

Added tentative AI-generated Toxic Products penalty 0 and directory value for current toxic, addictive, pesticide, livestock, chemical, or consumer-safety product exposure.

May 5, 2026 at 9:22 AM UTC ai_scaffolding score

Recalibrated tentative Meta human-harm penalty from -20 to -14 because severe privacy and discrimination harms do not match the clarified worst-actor tier reserved for mass death, forced labor, severe bodily harm, terror financing, or equivalent atrocities.

May 5, 2026 at 12:00 AM UTC ai_scaffolding score

Published tentative AI-generated scaffolding score -19 for initial human review under gcd-rubric-v1.

May 4, 2026 at 10:30 PM UTC founder score

Published flagship deep-dive launch score based on privacy, housing-ad discrimination, shareholder governance, identity capture, and scale claims.

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