Meta made its own AI-generated clickbait news feed

June 6, 2026 Robert Hart

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An AI-generated image of the royal family featuring two Queen Elizabeth IIs. | Image: Meta AI

Facebook has long been filled with feeds of clickbait articles. Now, Meta is making its own clickbait articles with AI.

The standalone Meta AI app now has a "For You" section that populates a list of clickbait-style stories for you to read. But the topics, images, and text are all AI-generated - and as questionable as you'd expect from AI-created works.

The Meta AI app first launched in April 2025 with its focus on a public "Discover" feed that showed AI-generated images and conversations from other users (who frequently seemed unaware that they were being made public). That's all disappeared. The app now has a standard chatbot interface, …

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