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Meta Adds Major News Partners to Meta AI to Deliver Real-Time Coverage on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp

07:07 PM, 12/05/2025
Meta Adds Major News Partners to Meta AI to Deliver Real-Time Coverage on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp

Meta is partnering with major news organizations to feed real-time reporting into Meta AI, bringing breaking news, entertainment and lifestyle coverage to Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users. The assistant will cite partners such as CNN, Fox News, Le Monde, People and USA Today and provide links to full articles. Meta says the change will help make its AI responses more timely, accurate and balanced, and it plans to add more partners as competition among AI assistants grows.

Meta Integrates Major News Outlets Into Its AI Assistant

Meta announced Friday that it will integrate reporting from leading news organizations into its artificial intelligence assistant, Meta AI, enabling users on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp to access up-to-date news, entertainment and lifestyle coverage directly through the assistant.

Meta said the assistant will surface breaking news and topical stories when users ask news-related questions, drawing on partnerships with outlets including CNN, Fox News, Le Monde, People and USA Today. The company emphasized that the feature will also link to partner websites so users can read full articles and follow stories in greater depth.

In a company blog post, Meta described the move as an effort to make Meta AI "more responsive, accurate, and balanced" by incorporating "more diverse content sources," acknowledging that keeping pace with real-time events is a challenge for many current AI systems.

The initial slate of partners spans mainstream and conservative-leaning publications, such as The Daily Caller and The Washington Examiner. Meta said it plans to expand the partner list and roll out new features as competition among technology firms to improve AI assistants intensifies.

Context and Industry Trend

The announcement follows a broader industry trend: AI services like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini are increasingly integrating live web content and news feeds to improve timeliness and relevance. Meta AI is available across the company's apps and reaches billions of users worldwide.

Meta's Recent History With News Organizations

Meta’s relationship with news publishers has been uneven. The company—founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004—previously concluded that news accounted for a small share of user engagement and began winding down the Facebook News tab in markets including the United States, Britain and France. That shift coincided with the end of multimillion-dollar licensing deals with several major outlets.

In January, Meta also ended its U.S. third-party fact-checking program. The decision, which eliminated a network of external fact-checkers (many drawn from news organizations), drew criticism from some media groups and observers who said it reduced an important safeguard against misinformation on the platform.

Why it matters: By linking AI answers to recognized news sources, Meta aims to make its assistant more timely and to give users direct access to reporting from a range of outlets. The move could reshape how many users discover and consume news across Meta’s platforms.

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