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  "slug": "facebook",
  "title": "Facebook",
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  "summary": "Meta/Facebook trends as news covers legal action silencing a whistleblower and restrictions on public promotion events.",
  "why_now": "Recent court orders and highly covered events like the Hay Festival coincide, generating renewed scrutiny of platform-legal infrastructure.",
  "evidence_summary": "- The Guardian details Meta legal action forcing a Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival. - Mashable and BBC cite Meta legal order preventing whistleblower book promotion at literary event. - Coverage emphasizes technology platform's use of legal structures to manage public speech.",
  "caveat": "Legal/press cycles are complex and often stall before substantive change is seen.",
  "signal_type": "Technology / Infrastructure Signal",
  "score": 80.0,
  "score_field": "adjusted_score",
  "state": "PUBLISH",
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "Meta whistleblower’s lawyer says he too is prevented from promoting her book",
      "source": "The Guardian",
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/01/meta-whistleblower-lawyer-prevented-promoting-book-sarah-wynn-williams-hay-festival"
    }
  ],
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