• Meta is now required to show Facebook and Instagram posts in chronological order instead of relying on recommendation algorithms
• A court ruling strengthens transparency on digital platforms.

A Dutch appeals court upheld an October decision mandating Meta Platforms to allow users in the Netherlands to see posts in chronological order rather than through algorithmically curated feeds that analyze user behavior.

The case was brought by digital rights group Bits of Freedom ahead of national elections, warning that opaque content feeds can negatively affect public debate, as users may not know which posts they are seeing or why they appear.

Separately, Meta Platforms has reached a deal to bring Moltbook founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr into its Meta Superintelligence Labs, led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang.

Schlicht and Parr are expected to start at the unit on March 16, according to Axios, while Meta has not disclosed financial details of the acquisition.

Moltbook, launched in late January as a niche experiment similar to Reddit, features AI-powered bots exchanging code and chatting humorously about their human creators.

Since then, the platform has become a focal point for debate over how close computers are to human-like intelligence.