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Obama judge rules Trump ban on ICE-fighting apps unconstitutional
ICE agents have a hard enough time staying safe with leftist politicians trying to defund them, media villainizing them, and rioters threatening them. For months, ICE agents even watched their backs as location-tracking apps pinpointed their every move on the streets, at least until alleged government pressure wiped them from the App Store and Google Play. Unfortunately for ICE, the ban didn’t last long, as a district court judge just ruled their removal unconstitutional, seemingly disregarding the safety of ICE agents while blaming the Trump administration.
The rise and fall of anti-ICE apps
ICE-reporting apps — led by ICEBlock on iOS — popped up online around April 2025, shortly after deportation raids in Democrat-run strongholds earned the ire of politicians, media, and rioters on the left side of the aisle. The apps were billed as a way to report and monitor the location of ICE agents and hold them accountable for “alleged civil rights abuses and failures to adhere to constitutional principles and due process.”
It sounds altruistic, if any of that were true, but it’s ICEBlock’s off-label use cases that make it far more dangerous to the people, government officials, and United States sovereignty.
The next step in deciding the fate of ICE-tracking apps is to take the case to court.
With ICE agent locations marked on a map, apps like ICEBlock gave illegal aliens enough information to hide or flee from law enforcement to avoid deportation. ICEBlock also essentially showed rioters exactly where to go to confront ICE on the street, adding fuel to countless attacks on agents and the deaths of two American citizens.
In October 2025, the Trump administration reportedly sought to ban ICE-tracking apps, noting that they posed a major threat to ICE officials and public safety at large. At the time, former United States Attorney General Pam Bondi said, “ICEBlock is designed to put ICE agents at risk just for doing their jobs, and violence against law enforcement is an intolerable red line that cannot be crossed.”
Apple quickly removed ICEBlock from the App Store, prompting the developer, Joshua Aaron, to sue the Trump administration for censorship. Although Apple wasn’t directly implicated in the lawsuit, Aaron added, “We are incredibly disappointed by Apple’s actions. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move.”
Cue the eyeroll.
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Violence against ICE is a real threat
There’s no doubt that Pam Bondi was right about the threats against ICE agents, something we covered extensively at Blaze News. Here are just some of the most egregious stories:
Anti-ICE mob turns hostile, breaching barriers outside detention facility — several officers injuredLos Angeles anti-ICE protesters harass DHS agents, military members on Independence DayInside the Portland ICE facility under siege by Antifa extremistsICE agents fear for their safety after security fence removed at Chicago-area facility amid sometimes violent protestsBorder Patrol agents dodge bullets and bricks from leftist rioters in sanctuary city: DHSVIDEO: Unhinged anti-ICE extremists hurl profanities at agents in Minneapolis: ‘Get the f**k out!’
ICE agents aren’t the only ones at risk. Due to increasingly divisive rhetoric by left-wing politicians, agitators took to the streets and threatened ICE to the point that two protesters lost their lives.
ICEBlock returns … maybe
Fast-forward to today. Months after ICEBlock’s removal, Obama-appointed District Court Judge Jorge L. Alonso issued a preliminary injunction in favor of Joshua Aaron, agreeing that banning or blocking ICE-tracking apps, websites, and services violates the First Amendment. He went on to say that both the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security illegally coerced tech companies to remove ICEBlock and similar apps from the App Store and Google Play. Facebook was also reprimanded in the decision for shutting down an ICE-tracking Facebook Group called “ICE Sightings — Chicagoland.”
It’s important to note that Alonso’s ruling is only a preliminary injunction and not a final ruling, meaning that its protections are temporary, pending a full trial. If the case falls in favor of ICE-tracking apps and services, ICEBlock and the like can return to online spaces indefinitely, leaving the Trump administration with one less legal option to protect the whereabouts and operations of ICE agents.
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COUCH POTATOES: Desperate late-night hosts bore viewers with Tim Walz, John Kerry
Johnny Carson made us howl by having the biggest stars on the galaxy grace his “Tonight Show” couch.
Sinatra. Reynolds. Rickles. Martin.
‘We need somebody, we need a feral, bloodthirsty, violent Democrat.’
Modern late-night shows settle for the likes of John Kerry and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Both far-left Democrats appeared on late-night this week, eager to take the hosts’ softball queries and smack ‘em out of the park.
Walz’s chat on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” found him deflecting the massive fraud in his state to, you guessed it, President Donald Trump. Any tough questions about Cap’n Jazz Hands quitting his re-election campaign? Hardly.
At this point, one of those “Technical Difficulties: Please Stand By” signs would be better than these late-night hacks …
Mind freak
Psychic abilities are overrated, apparently.
Sunny Hostin, in a daily scrum to prove who the dumbest “View” host is, told the ABC show crowd this week about her unique skill set. No, it doesn’t involve twisting the truth into a Bavarian pretzel. She’s already proved that more than a few times.
This week, Hostin shared a deeply personal strength.
I believe I have psychic abilities. I recall when I was a child at about 5 years old. You know, I grew up very poor, and I dreamt a number. And my grandmother was like, ‘We are going to play that number.’ We used to call it playing the numbers, and my entire family won based on that number.
Did she foresee how “The View” would become the train wreck TV that it is today? If so, she may be the real deal …
‘Chainsaw’ chatter
Leatherface is ready for his close-up. Again.
A mad bidding war for the “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” franchise is over, and newbie director Curry Barker (“Obsession”) will do the honors for A24 films.
But why?
The 1974 original is a classic for all the right reasons. It’s raw and shocking, and it reinvented horror in ways that are still reverberating today. It’s the original nightmare fuel, complete with an odd vocal cameo by John Larroquette. (And he was paid in pot. Literally.) Except we haven’t had many quality “Massacre” films since then.
Eight films. Only one could be considered a keeper, the unjustly attacked 2003 reboot starring Jessica Biel. The rest have modest reasons to recommend them, at best, but only for horror junkies.
Will the ninth film since the original hit the jackpot? Barker directed the no-budget horror film “Milk & Serial,” a creepy affair that became his calling card. “Obsession,” brimming with positive prerelease buzz, drops next month.
If not, well, the next reboot is only a few years away …
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Cho chooses violence
Projection is a terrible drug.
The left routinely tells us who they are by projecting their darkest impulses on their ideological foes. And Margaret Cho is example A, B, and C.
Maybe D.
The far-left comic raged against all things Trump in a new interview. She didn’t stop there.
I am a Democrat, but I also feel like there’s this weird attachment to decorum and taking the high road, and none of that is gonna work. We need somebody, we need a feral, bloodthirsty, violent Democrat. We just need somebody who is willing to put them all in prison — do the right thing and put them all in prison.
Taking the high road? Apparently, Cho was struck in the head around 2017 and just woke up from a nearly decade-long coma. We wish her well in her recovery …
Rock ‘n’ roll swindle
The Boss missed out on that hometown discount.
Bruce Springsteen’s anti-Trump tour is getting all sorts of fawning press for all the obvious reasons. It could be partly why a 76-year-old rocker embraces his far-left shtick in the first place. He knew the legacy media would have his back.
Either way, a new review of his recent New Jersey concert hit the brakes on the media love fest.
Hard.
NJ.com’s review blasted Springsteen for a show “poisoned by hypocrisy.”
The blue-collar troubadour now charges exorbitant amounts for his tickets — up to $2,900 retail for the best seats in Newark Monday; prices he agreed to despite fan backlash. He’s selling No Kings-branded flags for $90 in the arena concourse.
The site leans to the left, but the Boss is so blatantly two-faced even his fellow liberals couldn’t ignore it: His glory days are far behind him.
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Trump administration calls off criminal probe into Fed Chair Powell
President Donald Trump’s administration has dropped the criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for his multibillion-dollar renovation project.
The Department of Justice dropped the probe just days after Trump’s pick to replace Powell, Kevin Warsh, testified before the Senate Banking Committee. After the hearing, Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina reiterated that he would not support Warsh’s confirmation unless the investigation into Powell is dropped.
‘I will not hesitate to restart a criminal investigation.’
Tillis is one of seven Republicans on the 13-member committee, meaning his vote is needed to advance Warsh’s nomination to the Senate floor, presuming no Democrat defectors.
After Tillis once again made his demands clear, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro announced the investigation was dropped.
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“This morning the Inspector General for the Federal Reserve has been asked to scrutinize the building costs overruns — in the billions of dollars — that have been borne by taxpayers,” Pirro said in a post on X. “The IG has the authority to hold the Federal Reserve accountable to American taxpayers.”
“I expect a comprehensive report in short order and am confident the outcome will assist in resolving, once and for all, the questions that led this office to issue subpoenas,” Pirro added. “Accordingly, I have directed my office to close our investigation as the IG undertakes this inquiry. Note well, however, that I will not hesitate to restart a criminal investigation should the facts warrant doing so.”
Warsh’s confirmation now awaits a vote from the Senate Banking Committee before proceeding to the Senate floor, where the nominee will need to secure a simple majority. Powell’s term expired in March, but he said he will remain in the role until Warsh is confirmed.
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Trump Calls The SPLC “One Of The Greatest Political Scams In American History”
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Schumer rushes to defend the SPLC after it was EXPOSED for apparently funding racist extremism
The Justice Department announced on Tuesday that a grand jury in Alabama returned an indictment charging the Southern Poverty Law Center with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering.
Democrats are by now no doubt accustomed to hearing that many of the activists driving their agenda on the left are crooked; however, the SPLC is not merely accused of corruption.
‘It should send a chill down the spine of every American.’
Rather, it has been credibly accused of bankrolling leaders and organizers in the very extremist groups it claimed to be fighting — including the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nation, the American Front, United Klans of America, the National Socialist Party of America, and the National Alliance — as well as having a hand in the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
“The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence,” stated acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.
Despite this alleged betrayal of donors and fellow travelers alike, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Democrat operatives have rallied to the hate racket’s defense.
Schumer said Wednesday on the floor of the U.S. Senate that the “deeply disturbing charges” brought against the SPLC “should send a chill down the spine of every American who cares about free expression and the rule of law in the Justice Department. It should send a chill down the spine of every American who cares about civil liberties and the fight against violent extremism.”
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Contrary to Schumer’s suggestion, Americans keen on fighting violent extremism might be delighted to learn that the Justice Department has targeted an alleged financial crutch holding up violent bigots across the country.
The indictment against the SPLC alleges that between 2014 and 2023, the organization — which raked in over $106.47 million in contributions in fiscal year 2024 alone — “secretly funneled more than $3 million in SPLC funds to [field sources] who were associated with various violent extremist groups.”
“Let’s be clear what this case is … really about,” said Schumer. “It has nothing to do with alleged wire fraud or with the Southern Poverty Law Center somehow working in coordination with the KKK. That’s ridiculous on its face. It doesn’t pass the laugh test.”
‘This is core to counter-extremism work.’
Schumer claimed that the case against the SPLC is ultimately about President Donald Trump turning the DOJ into the “Department of Vengeance — his own attack dog.”
The deeply unpopular Democrat suggested further that this case demonstrates that the administration is targeting opponents of “white supremacy” and “turning what America is all about inside out.”
Schumer was hardly the only Democrat associate to dismiss the possibility that the SPLC was keeping the illusion of formidable hatred alive in order to continue bilking deep-pocketed donors.
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Acting AG Todd Blanche. Mandel NGAN/AFP/Getty Images
Norman Eisen, a Democrat operative who served as special counsel to former President Barack Obama, suggested in a joint statement with Richard Painter — former associate counsel to former President George W. Bush — and Virginia Canter — former associate counsel to former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama — that the SPLC wasn’t bankrolling its purported foes but rather “paying informants to expose and prevent violence by the KKK, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups.”
“This is core to counter-extremism work, and it’s exactly what the DOJ and FBI should be doing — not attacking legendary civil rights organizations,” wrote the trio.
“SPLC is ideologically opposed to hate groups and hate crimes. We stand with SPLC and will support them in every way.”
Maya Wiley, CEO of the D.C.-based liberal organization Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, characterized the effort to hold the SPLC to account as retaliation over the liberal hate racket’s alleged work protecting people from hatred.
“What is happening to civil rights organizations right now is the most coordinated assault on our sector since COINTELPRO,” said Wiley.
“In order to have absolute power, [the Trump administration] must dismantle our rights. And that’s why they’re coming after us.”
‘They have made no secret of who they want to protect.’
“The Southern Poverty Law Center has spent decades doing that work, and we stand with them,” added Wiley, who previously served as counsel to Democrat New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
The American Constitution Society, a liberal activist group that has received funding from the Tides Nexus and George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, joined the gaslighting campaign, framing the indictment as an attack by the administration motivated by a difference of opinion on policy and politics.
“This is a clear abuse of power,” stated the ACS. “The American Constitution Society stands in solidarity with SPLC and all of our partners working to uphold the rule of law, strengthen our democratic legitimacy, and realize the promise of equality for all.”
SPLC CEO Bryan Fair said in a video statement this week, “For 55 years, the Southern Poverty Law Center has stood as a beacon of hope, fighting white supremacy and various forms of injustice to create a multiracial democracy where we can all live and thrive.”
“We are therefore unsurprised to be the latest organization targeted by this administration,” continued Fair. “They have made no secret of who they want to protect and who they want to destroy.”
Fair suggested that the field sources referred to in the indictment were “paid confidential informants” tasked with gathering “credible intelligence on extremely violent groups.” He said the SPLC no longer works with such informants.
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DOJ Arrests US Special Force Soldier Who Took Part In Maduro Raid & Made $400,000 Betting On Venezuelan Dictator’s Removal
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Mom of teen thug arrested after body-slamming, head-stomping much smaller girl says he’s a ‘humble,’ ‘quiet’ Christian
The mother of a 14-year-old male who was arrested after being caught on a viral video body-slamming and head-stomping a much smaller girl on a Harlem street said her boy is a “humble,” “quiet” Christian who “doesn’t provoke nobody,” the New York Post reported.
The attack against the 15-year-old victim took place on the corner of East 107th Street and 3rd Avenue in East Harlem around 3:30 p.m. Monday after she wouldn’t give the boy her number, the Post said in a previous story.
‘He don’t provoke nobody. But if you provoke him, he will lash out.’
The clip shows the considerably larger male standing in a crosswalk in front of his victim and warning that “I’ll knock the s**t out of you right now.”
Another male is heard off-camera encouraging the attacker: “Do it!”
When the girl attempts to cross the street, the attacker orders her, “Nah, you stand right here” as he points to the ground close to his feet.
The girl attempts to go around the attacker, but he puts his arm out and pushes her backward.
But the gutsy girl defiantly tells her attacker, “Get the f**k away from me, p***y!” and turns around and begins to walk away down a sidewalk.
Her attacker, who’s wearing a mask over his mouth and nose, follows her, grabs her from behind, picks her up, and body-slams her into the sidewalk — and then stomps on her head while she’s defenseless on the ground.
The Post said the attacker was arrested, charged with assault, and appeared in Manhattan juvenile court Thursday afternoon, after which he was remanded into custody.
The victim’s mother told the Post her daughter — a ninth-grade student-athlete at East Harlem Scholars Academy Charter School — spent two days in a hospital and suffered a concussion, bleeding, potential brain injury, headaches, and an injured neck.
However, the attacker’s mother — Selma Allen — claimed to the paper that the girl victim in the attack actually is the bully.
“He’s been complaining about her,” she added to the Post. “I bring it to the principal’s attention, but he don’t address it. The way my son is being bullied, he doesn’t want to go to school.”
What’s more, Allen told the Post after her son’s court appearance that he’s a “humble,” “quiet” Christian who “doesn’t provoke nobody.” She also told the paper that the girl shoved him just moments before the start of the video.
“It’s retaliation because she pushed him first,” Allen added to the Post, although the paper said she failed to “cough up additional footage she claimed she had of the victim pushing her son.”
“He don’t provoke nobody,” Allen also told the Post. “But if you provoke him, he will lash out.”
The attacker’s mother also denied her son wanted the girl’s phone number, the paper said, adding that the pair are friends who exchange messages on Instagram and WhatsApp.
The paper said the school didn’t immediately return a request for comment.
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Hegseth warns European allies to stop ‘free riding’ and help reopen the strait
Nearly two months after the United States launched its war with Iran, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is calling on European allies to join the fight.
The Strait of Hormuz has quickly become a point of contention in the conflict, significantly constraining the world’s oil supply. President Donald Trump eventually ordered the United States Navy to blockade the strait while attempts to negotiate with Iran continue.
‘They need the Strait of Hormuz much more than we do.’
Although America initiated this war along with Israel, Hegseth echoed Trump’s earlier calls to European allies to fend for themselves. This comes just days after the former Navy Secretary John Phelan was fired by the administration.
“This should not be America’s fight alone,” Hegseth said during a Friday press briefing. “We barely use the Strait of Hormuz as a county. Our energy doesn’t flow through there, and we have plenty of energy. Just look at the new global Congo line headed to Texas. A beautiful picture.”
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Hegseth noted that our European allies, who have long enjoyed protections from the United States, are the ones disproportionately affected by the energy crisis sparked by America’s war, urging them to “get in a boat” to resolve the conflict themselves.
“Europe and Asia have benefited from our protection for decades, but the time for free riding is over,” Hegseth said. “America and the free world deserve allies who are capable, who are loyal, and who understand that being an ally is not a one-way street. It’s a two-way street.”
“We are not counting on Europe, but they need the Strait of Hormuz much more than we do,” Hegseth said. “And might want to start doing less talking and having less fancy conferences in Europe and get in a boat.”
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Illegal Alien Chews Toddler’s Face During Shocking Attack at Texas Lake – Reports
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Pentagon floats ousting Spain from NATO, punishing allies for not toeing the line on Iran
The U.S-Iran conflict is unpopular at home with 58% of American adults signaling opposition in a recent Economist/YouGov poll, and surveys conducted both prior and immediately after the initial U.S.-Israeli strikes in late February revealed a general aversion to getting dragged into another foreign entanglement.
While the military intervention is unpopular in the U.S., the opposition to it is significantly greater in Europe, particularly in Spain, where such opposition has proven politically expedient for the ruling Socialist Party.
‘No worries.’
In addition to criticizing the conflict, leftist Spanish officials have in recent months publicly underscored their unwillingness to materially assist the U.S., going so far as to refuse the U.S. to use the jointly run bases at Morón and Rota to strike Iran.
A U.S. official claimed to Reuters that, in an internal email, the Pentagon has floated the idea of pushing Spain out of NATO and punishing allies that failed to toe the line on the Iran conflict.
The email reportedly expresses annoyances over certain allies’ reluctance or outright refusal to permit the U.S. access, basing, and overflight rights for the Iran conflict, which the official said were altogether described as “the absolute baseline for NATO.”
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President Donald Trump and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez shake hands. Suzanne Plunkett – Pool/Getty Images
The email identifies a number of sanctions for such noncooperation that might serve to “decreas[e] the sense of entitlement on the part of the Europeans,” including suspending “difficult” countries from important positions at NATO, the official claimed.
While base closures in Europe were not among the proposed responses, ousting Spain from the alliance — a move the email said would be symbolic but have a limited impact on U.S military operations — is on the table, the official added. It’s unclear how such an ouster would be accomplished given NATO’s founding treaty does not contain a formal mechanism to eject a member.
The email reportedly also raises the possibility of rethinking U.S. diplomatic support for European “imperial possessions” such as Britain’s Falkland Islands off the coast of Argentina.
When asked about the email, Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson told Reuters, “As President Trump has said, despite everything that the United States has done for our NATO allies, they were not there for us.”
“The War Department will ensure that the President has credible options to ensure that our allies are no longer a paper tiger and instead do their part,” said Wilson. “We have no further comment on any internal deliberations to that effect.”
President Donald Trump said in a March interview with the New York Post that Spain “is a loser” and “very hostile to NATO.”
“Not a team player, and we’re not going to be a team player with Spain either,” added Trump, suggesting elsewhere that the U.S. could just co-opt the Spanish bases and slap Madrid with a trade embargo.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, whose country’s defense spending has chronically fallen short of NATO targets, brushed off the email, telling Politico, “No worries.”
“We are fulfilling our obligations toward NATO,” said Sánchez.
“The Spanish government’s position is clear: absolute cooperation with our allies, but always within the framework of international law,” added the socialist prime minister.
Following the report about the Pentagon memo, a spokesman for the German government suggested that Spain’s membership was safe, reported the BBC.
“Spain is a member of NATO. And I see no reason why that should change,” said the German spokesman.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told NATO members on Friday to stick together, noting the alliance is a “source of strength.”
“We must work to strengthen NATO’s European pillar … which must clearly complement the American one,” added Meloni, who was recently criticized by Trump over her defense of Pope Leo XIV.
The Department of War did not respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.
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Meta is using its own employees to train AI agents for ‘everyday tasks’
A new report claims that internal memos at Meta say the company will be harvesting data from employees to train artificial intelligence.
The training software Meta plans on using will go directly onto employees’ computers and will track what the employees are doing at work.
‘Agents primarily do the work and our role is to direct.’
The new directive will track U.S.-based employees’ activities on their computers, Meta reportedly told staffers, capturing mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes. In turn, this data will train Meta’s AI models so that the automated agents can perform work tasks autonomously, Reuters reported.
In a statement to Return, a Meta spokesman said that if the company is “building agents to help people complete everyday tasks using computers, our models need real examples of how people actually use them.”
This includes not only the aforementioned mouse movements and clicks, but also “navigating dropdown menus,” for example.
The recent report stated that Meta will use a Model Capability Initiative that runs on work-related apps or websites and takes snapshots of what appears on the employees’ screens.
Meta described the initiative as launching an internal tool that will capture the mouse clicks and movements “on certain applications to help us train our models.”
At the same time, the spokesman said employee data would remain safe.
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“There are safeguards in place to protect sensitive content, and the data is not used for any other purpose,” the spokesman asserted in his statement.
The data is only collected for “model training purposes” and will “not be used in performance reviews, and managers cannot access it,” the statement concluded.
Meta was asked to clarify what “everyday tasks” they were looking to have their AI agents perform and if this amounted to tasks that would otherwise be performed by a human, but the company did not provide an answer to those questions.
While the internal memos have not been published, Reuters claimed to have reviewed multiple, including one that was posted internally to the Meta SuperIntelligence Labs team.
“This is where all Meta employees can help our models get better simply by doing their daily work,” it allegedly said.
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Meta’s chief technology officer, Andrew Bosworth, allegedly shared a different memo this week that told employees internal data collection would increase at the company, as roles transform into directing AI agents to do work.
“The vision we are building towards is one where our agents primarily do the work and our role is to direct, review, and help them improve,” Bosworth reportedly stated.
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