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He had clicked 'Allow Always'

Meta's Muse agent 'gave out a user's home address without permission.' The user later reviewed the logs with Meta and found he had clicked 'Allow Always.' That setting is the real story.

“Meta's AI agent Muse gave out a user's home address without permission and sent a Facebook Marketplace buyer to his house, as reports of Matt Robb's account put it on September 28 and 29, 2026.”

Reports of tech reviewer Matt Robb's first account, led by The Guardian and relayed by Digital Watch, 28 September 2026

Recorded 30 September 2026. Our ruling means: literally true, materially misleading.

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The evidence file for this verdict

15 receipts: 4 support the claim, 1 contradict it, 10 add context. 2 figures on the record, 1 traced to a quoted receipt.

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  1. 1Supports the claimdig.watch ↗

    shared a user's home address with a prospective Facebook Marketplace buyer and arranged an in-person collection without the user's knowledge in the US

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  2. 2Contextdig.watch ↗

    according to reporting by The Guardian

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  3. 3Contextdig.watch ↗

    The incident involved technology reviewer Matt Robb, who had enabled Muse to help automate responses to his Facebook Marketplace listings.

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  4. 4Supports the claimdig.watch ↗

    leading the buyer to travel to the address while Robb remained unaware that a collection had been arranged.

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  5. 5Contradicts the claimdig.watch ↗

    Robb later said that he had reviewed the relevant logs with Meta's Muse team and found that he had selected an 'Allow Always' option when setting up the Marketplace task.

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  6. 6Contextdig.watch ↗

    the setting allowed the agent to send messages using a template containing the pickup address without further confirmation.

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  7. 7Contextdig.watch ↗

    He had understood that Muse would still seek his approval before accepting offers

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  8. 8Contextdig.watch ↗

    Meta said its review found no breach of its privacy controls, while Robb said the company had agreed to make the permission prompt clearer

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  9. 9Supports the claimdig.watch ↗

    after instructing the agent to stop sharing the address, tests conducted with friends resulted in Muse disclosing it to several more people.

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  10. 10Contextmemeburn.com ↗

    Muse's approvals cover types of action per connector, so "Always allow" lets the model alone decide what a message contains.

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  11. 11Contextmemeburn.com ↗

    a Marketplace reply confirming an item is still available and a reply containing a street address are the same write action on the same connector.

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  12. 12Contextabout.fb.com ↗

    Muse checks with the person before sensitive actions like sending an email or making a purchase.

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  13. 13Supports the claimdecrypt.co ↗

    had actually synced more than 187,000 rows of his private iMessages despite him declining that access.

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  14. 14Contextdecrypt.co ↗

    David Singleton, who leads Meta Superintelligence Labs, responded on Threads, saying that was an opt-in feature.

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  15. 15Contextdecrypt.co ↗

    Meta's Muse AI agent told columnist Jason Aten it only saw notification previews from his Mac

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