Jordan Liles, snopes/fact-check/

In December 2025, Facebook users shared a rumor claiming Meta signed into policy a "new Facebook rule" allowing the company the rights to users' photos starting "tomorrow." According to the posts, a lawyer advised "60 Minutes" to post about it on social media, advising users to publish a message effectively barring Meta from using their personal data.

The warning, appearing many, many times in Facebook searches, read as follows: 

Big day tomorrow I It's official. Signed at 8:10am. It was even on TV. Mine really turned blue. Don't forget that tomorrow starts the new Facebook rule (aka... new name, META) where they can use your photos. Don't forget the deadline is today!!!

Hold your finger anywhere in this message and "copy" will appear. Click "copy". Then go to your page, create a new post and place your finger anywhere in the empty field. "Paste" will appear and click Paste.

This will bypass the system….

He who does nothing consents

According to the show 60 Minutes:

Just in case you missed it: a lawyer advised us to post this. The violation of privacy can be punished by law NOTE: Facebook Meta is now a public entity. Every member must post a note like this. If you do not publish a statement at least once, it will be technically understood that you are allowing the use of your photos, as well as the information contained in your profile status updates.

I HEREBY DECLARE THAT I DO NOT GIVE MY PERMISSION FOR FACEBOOK OR META TO USE ANY OF MY PERSONAL DATA. I do not give consent!

Searches showed a fair amount of users posted a slight variation of the text. Instead of "8:10am," those posts began, "Big day tomorrow I It's official. Signed at 7:03pm." Some users even claimed fact-checkers had looked into the matter and deemed the claim true. Others posted about how U.S. Rep. Valerie Foushee, a member of the Democratic Party from North Carolina, copied and pasted the warning message on her personal Facebook page.

In short — and regarding the reference to fact-checking — none of this was true. Meta did not sign into policy a "new Facebook rule," nor did "60 Minutes" post about the matter on social media. Snopes contacted Foushee's office to ask about the post, which no longer appeared on her page as of this writing, and will update this article if we receive a response.

One of the oldest and more persistent rumors in internet history is the Facebook post asking users to copy and paste text to declare an establishment of legal authority. Users who copy and pasting a block of text onto their profile page will not change anything about the fact that they already agreed to the company's terms of service and privacy policy when they signed up for an account.

In 2019, Meta published of such rumors, "Copy-and-paste memes — those blocks of text posted on message boards, forwarded in emails and shared via social media — are as old as the internet."

We previously reported numerous times about this same rumor, including at least two variations of this very same text, as well as many past versions, too. We label such posts as copypasta, meaning copied-and-pasted social media messages.

For further reading, we previously investigated another rumor claiming Meta planned to update the corporation's privacy policy to give the company permission to read all direct messages sent by its users and use the data to train its generative AI.

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