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      "id": "2026-utah-meta-ai-suggested-prompts-children-profile",
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            "id": "c1",
            "status": "corroborated",
            "evidence": [
              {
                "locator": "'Meta AI posed a series of invasive prompts under the video, such as \"Who's the child passenger?\" and \"Where does Kalie Robins live?\"'; 'pulled information from her past posts ... including her location'; 'drew on other profiles, such as her mother's account'.",
                "relation": "supports",
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              {
                "locator": "'Who's the child passenger?'; 'their names, birth information, pictures and videos of them'; 'It pieced together my information to show people where I live'.",
                "relation": "supports",
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              },
              {
                "locator": "'suggested questions aimed at uncovering information about her children — including their names, birthdates, videos, newborn photos, even photos that had been deleted — and, ultimately, her live location'.",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s2"
              }
            ],
            "assertion": "Meta AI suggested prompts under Robins's 1 September car video including 'Who's the child passenger?' and 'Where does Kalie Robins live?', and clicking them produced her daughters' names, birth details, photos and videos from her own and relatives' posts, and assembled her likely location.",
            "causal_attribution": "Robins's account given in separate interviews to CNET, NewsNation and Futurism; Meta does not dispute that the prompts were generated."
          },
          {
            "id": "c2",
            "status": "corroborated",
            "evidence": [
              {
                "locator": "'A Meta spokesperson told CNET in an email that it \"fixed\" the issue and that Meta AI will no longer suggest inappropriate, personal questions on users' posts'.",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s1"
              },
              {
                "locator": "'\"While the content was available to this user, these prompts should never have been generated,\" Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby said, according to The Verge'.",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s4"
              },
              {
                "locator": "'its AI search feature \"missed the mark\"'; '\"fixed that issue\"'.",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s3"
              }
            ],
            "assertion": "Meta said the prompts 'missed the mark' and 'should never have been generated', that responses draw only on information the user can already access, and that it fixed the issue so Meta AI no longer suggests personal questions about people in posts.",
            "causal_attribution": "Meta statements to three outlets."
          },
          {
            "id": "c3",
            "status": "disputed",
            "evidence": [
              {
                "locator": "'Meta also denied Robins' claim that its AI accessed a photo deleted years ago. Instead, Meta told CNET that the photo of Robins' kids was deleted right before the video was made and that a temporary bug briefly kept it visible. Robins disputed this'.",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s1"
              }
            ],
            "assertion": "Robins says one surfaced photo had been deleted years earlier; Meta says the photo was deleted shortly before the video and remained briefly visible because of a temporary bug.",
            "causal_attribution": "Competing accounts from Robins and Meta reported by CNET."
          }
        ],
        "effects": [
          {
            "label": "Meta AI prompts compiled a mother's young daughters' names, birth details and photos and her likely location; the mother reported distress and lost trust; Meta changed the feature",
            "claim_id": "c1",
            "direction": "negative"
          }
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          {
            "id": "s1",
            "url": "https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/meta-ai-viral-video-personal-prompts-about-kids/",
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            "access": "read",
            "language": "en",
            "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-18 (CNET, 12 Sep 2026). Direct interview with Robins plus Meta's emailed statement to CNET and its dispute of the deleted-photo detail.",
            "independence_group": "cnet"
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            "id": "s2",
            "url": "https://www.newsnationnow.com/business/tech/ai/mom-meta-ai-analyzing-posts-about-kids/",
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            "access": "read",
            "language": "en",
            "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-18 via the MSN content API copy (NewsNation, 17 Sep 2026; the newsnationnow.com host returns 403 to this box). Interview with Robins including the distress quotation.",
            "independence_group": "newsnation"
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          {
            "id": "s3",
            "url": "https://torontosun.com/news/world/utah-mom-sounds-alarm-after-meta-ai-digs-up-details-about-her-children-im-done",
            "kind": "news_report",
            "access": "read",
            "language": "en",
            "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-18 via the MSN content API copy (Toronto Sun, 15 Sep 2026). Relays Futurism's interview and Meta's statement to Futurism; treated as the Futurism chain.",
            "independence_group": "futurism"
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          {
            "id": "s4",
            "url": "https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/meta-changes-ai-prompts-after-chatbot-asked-mother-to-identify-her-child-3408508/",
            "kind": "news_report",
            "access": "read",
            "language": "en",
            "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-18 (Dexerto, 12 Sep 2026). Relays The Verge's report of Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby's statement; treated as The Verge chain.",
            "independence_group": "verge"
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        "ai_roles": [
          "own_use",
          "institutional_use"
        ],
        "contexts": [
          "privacy",
          "everyday_life",
          "relationships"
        ],
        "unknowns": [
          "What Meta changed and how many other users saw similar prompts about children is not disclosed.",
          "Whether the compiled information was shown to anyone other than Robins is not established.",
          "No regulator has announced an inquiry in the inspected sources."
        ],
        "geography": {
          "basis": "Robins is described as a Utah mother (Toronto Sun/Futurism; TRT Haber); the posts and prompts occurred on her US Instagram/Facebook accounts. No court.",
          "court_countries": [],
          "event_countries": [
            "US"
          ],
          "affected_person_countries": [
            "US"
          ]
        },
        "publication": {
          "basis": "Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a privacy and made-claim-about case: an AI feature compiled identifying details about two young children and a named adult's location, the adult reported distress and loss of control, and the company acknowledged the prompts should not have been generated. Four sources across four reporting chains read; the children's details are not reproduced. Low severity.",
          "reviewed_on": "2026-09-18"
        },
        "ai_involvement": {
          "basis": "Meta acknowledged to CNET and The Verge that its AI generated the suggested prompts and that they 'should never have been generated', and said it fixed the issue. The AI made claims about identified people (the children's identities and the mother's location) rather than conversing with them; the mother's clicks on the prompts are recorded as own_use, and the platform's default feature as institutional_use.",
          "status": "supported"
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      "name": "Utah: Meta AI's suggested prompts under a mother's Instagram video compiled her young daughters' names, birth details and old photos and her likely home location; Meta said the prompts 'missed the mark' and changed the feature",
      "summary": "On 1 September 2026 Kalie Robins, a Utah travel creator, posted a short Instagram video of herself singing in the car with one of her daughters; it was also shown on Facebook. The next day she noticed Meta AI had placed suggested questions under the post, starting with 'Who's the child passenger?'. Clicking the prompts, she said, produced her two daughters' names, birth information, photos and videos drawn from her own and relatives' past posts, including a newborn photo from her mother's account and a picture she believed she had deleted years earlier, and a further prompt, 'Where does Kalie Robins live?', assembled older and newer posts into her likely location. Her 2 September reaction video drew more than 310,000 likes. Meta told reporters the prompts 'missed the mark', 'should never have been generated' and had been fixed, while saying the feature only surfaces information the user can already access; it disputed that a long-deleted photo was used, saying the photo had been deleted shortly before the video and remained briefly visible through a bug. Robins said Meta never contacted her and that the episode left her feeling she had 'failed' her children.",
      "incidentDate": "2026-09-02",
      "incidentKind": "single_event",
      "incidentDatePrecision": "day",
      "exposurePattern": "single_interaction",
      "reportedDate": "2026-09-10",
      "aiSystem": "Meta AI (suggested-question prompts under Instagram and Facebook posts, drawing on the user's and related accounts' content)",
      "severity": "low",
      "verificationStatus": "credible",
      "harmCategories": [],
      "harmOutcomes": [
        "psychological_distress"
      ],
      "harmOutcomeSummary": "A mother experienced distress and a loss of control over her children's privacy after Meta AI's suggested prompts compiled her two young daughters' identifying details and her likely location from scattered family posts; Meta acknowledged the prompts should not have been generated and changed the feature.",
      "frameworkFacets": [],
      "causationStatus": "supported",
      "participantUsersAffectedMin": 1,
      "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 2,
      "affectedCountStatus": "exact",
      "affectedCountEvidence": "Kalie Robins (who used the prompts and reported distress) and her two daughters, whose identifying details were compiled. Exact count of three; her mother and other relatives whose posts were drawn on are not counted as harmed.",
      "victimAgeRange": "minor",
      "jurisdiction": "US",
      "platformType": "assistant",
      "outcomeType": "internal_action",
      "outcomeStatus": "resolved",
      "primarySourceUrl": "https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/meta-ai-viral-video-personal-prompts-about-kids/",
      "primarySourceLabel": "CNET, 12 Sep 2026: Mother calls for 'accountability' after Meta AI mines family posts for info on minors (interview with Kalie Robins; Meta statement)",
      "firstPublishedAt": "2026-09-18T03:25:15.671921+00:00",
      "scopeVersion": "facts-v3",
      "tags": [
        "meta-ai",
        "instagram",
        "facebook",
        "privacy",
        "children",
        "profiling",
        "suggested-prompts",
        "united-states",
        "utah",
        "made-claim-about"
      ]
    }
  ]
}