THE RORT · DOSSIER · METASTATUS · TRACKED
Australian Clinical Labs: named together in 2 articlesAustralian Clinical L…Medibank: named together in 2 articlesMedibankNews Corp: named together in 2 articlesNews CorpNine: named together in 2 articlesNineThe OAIC: named together in 2 articlesThe OAICOptus: named together in 2 articlesOptusThe ACCC: named together in 1 articleThe ACCCAmerican Express: named together in 1 articleAmerican ExpressGoogle: named together in 1 articleGoogleThe News Bargaining Incentive: named together in 1 articleThe News Bargaining I…Qantas: named together in 1 articleQantasSeven West Media: named together in 1 articleSeven West MediaTransurban: named together in 1 articleTransurban
DOSSIER / ACTORACTOR · PLATFORM

Meta

Meta Platforms

Status Tracked

Owns Facebook and Instagram; opposed the News Bargaining Incentive in its June 2026 submission and has argued the charge breaches the Australia-United States free trade agreement.

Last on record
2026-09
Named in
4 articles
Across
3 cases

Named in 4 articles across 3 cases 13 connections: companies 10, mechanisms 1, regulators and bodies 2

Key figure on file
58 and 57 months
How long the Optus White Pages investigation and the Meta case each ran, on this article’s basis, before either produced an outcome.
4
Articles naming it
3
Cases it recurs across
13
Linked in the graph
3
Figures on file

Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

The Privacy Rort58 and 57 monthsHow long the Optus White Pages investigation and the Meta case each ran, on this article’s basis, before either produced an outcome.2 articles →Media Ownership11 article →The Roads Rort11 article →
Fig. 01Source: article scan · every article naming itAs of 2026‑09Auto-assembled

Fig. 02 / On the record

  1. 58 and 57 monthsHow long the Optus White Pages investigation and the Meta case each ran, on this article’s basis, before either produced an outcome.Nearly five years →
  2. $2.22 millionThe maximum civil penalty per contravention that applied to the ACL, Medibank and Optus cases in this article; the Meta case carried a $1.7 million cap. Higher maximums have applied to conduct after 13 December 2022, but none of these cases involve conduct after that date.One penalty →
  3. $50 millionThe payment program Meta agreed to in December 2024; as part of the resolution the Commissioner withdrew the civil penalty case. It is not a civil penalty; the program pays affected people.One penalty →
Fig. 02Source: figures on file for this name, each tied to the article it came fromAs of 2026‑09Auto-assembled

How we know

The sources of the 4 articles that name Meta, by the tier the desk declared. A source supports its article, not necessarily a claim about Meta.

Evidence strength · 60 sources across 4 articles
  • Primary 25
  • Official 4
  • Masthead 6
  • Trade 16
  • Aggregator 1
  • Unusable 1
  • 7 not yet graded
Primary
the document itself: legislation, a court record, a filing, a regulator’s own publication
Official
the organisation’s own statement about itself
Masthead
a news organisation with a corrections policy, reporting the primary document
Trade
specialist or trade press
Aggregator
republishes others’ work
Unusable
its own sourcing cannot be established
How sources are graded

4 of 4 articles are graded on every headline finding. How findings are graded

Fig. 03 / Named together

MetaAustralian Clinical Labs: named together in 2 articlesAustralian Clinical Labs2Medibank: named together in 2 articlesMedibank2News Corp: named together in 2 articlesNews Corp2Nine: named together in 2 articlesNine2Optus: named together in 2 articlesOptus2The OAIC: named together in 2 articlesThe OAIC2American Express: named together in 1 articleAmerican Express1Google: named together in 1 articleGoogle1Qantas: named together in 1 articleQantas1Seven West Media: named together in 1 articleSeven West Media1The ACCC: named together in 1 articleThe ACCC1The News Bargaining Incentive: named together in 1 articleThe News Bargaining Incentive1
The 12 names most often in the same articles as Meta. A line's weight, and the number by each name, is how many articles name both. Grey chords join the neighbours most often named together themselves (two articles or more). Circles are people and organisations, squares are mechanisms. Named together is all this shows: it is not a finding about what the relationship is.
Fig. 03Source: article scan · articles naming bothAs of 2026‑09Auto-assembled

How this page is assembled. The name, status and role are the desk's entity record. The article list, case counts, connections and the figures under On the record are read by script from the published articles that name Meta: the desk's key figures where it declared them, otherwise figures harvested from those articles. A connection is a name that appears in the same articles; it is not a finding about the relationship. Under How we know, the sources are those articles' references, counted once each and tiered only where the desk declared a tier; a grade beside an article is its weakest headline finding, shown only where every headline finding is graded. The page is rebuilt when an article is published or changed.

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