Meta Audit -- Fine Print Accuracy Report

This is a test of Fine Print's accuracy, not a legal assessment of Meta's terms. Results show what the extension flagged, including any errors.

Summary

1 clause flagged across 1 category

1 Medium

Potential false negative: Meta's "AS IS" liability disclaimer exists per external analysis but may not have been detected due to Meta's page structure (collapsible sections, dynamic rendering). This is being investigated.

Structural limitation: Meta's ToS is the most carefully engineered document in this audit series. Every major concern (content license, data sharing, termination, arbitration) has been rewritten to technically avoid the trigger language that other companies use. The content license avoids "perpetual" and "irrevocable," data sharing is framed as "businesses pay us to show you ads," and termination is conditional on breaches. These are technically correct non-flags, but represent a gap between what the ToS literally states and what it effectively permits. This is the strongest argument for future AI-powered semantic analysis.

Findings

Medium

Data may be retained after you delete your account

Content may not be deleted within 90 days in several circumstances, including "where deletion within 90 days is not possible due to technical limitations," where content has been shared by others, where deletion would restrict ability to investigate violations, protect safety, comply with legal obligations, or respond to government requests.

What Fine Print correctly did not flag

Perpetual license: Meta's content license is "non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free" but deliberately avoids "perpetual" and "irrevocable." Instead it states "this license will end when your content is deleted from our systems."
Data selling: Meta never says "sell your data." They frame advertising as "businesses pay us to show you ads." Data sharing mechanics live in the separate Privacy Policy.
Account termination: Conditional on "clearly, seriously or repeatedly breached our Terms." Not "without cause."
Binding arbitration: Not in the main consumer ToS.

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