Meta Patent Allows Dead Facebook Users to Continue Posting from Beyond the Grave

Slaynews ^ | 2/21/26 | David Lindfield

[Duke C.]

A newly granted patent to Meta is raising unsettling questions about the future of artificial intelligence (AI) and digital identity.

The company’s developments suggest that social media users could continue posting, commenting, and even interacting with loved ones after death.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: aitruth

[from occupied ga]

Nothing new here. Democrat voters have been voting from the grave for decades

[Twotone]

I know a couple of dead FB users who are still posting. It’s been going on for years. I assumed a family member just took over the account.

[I want the USA back]

This isn’t the Bee. Looks like they really plan on doing this.

We can’t tell what’s true and what’s fake online any more.

[Sirius Lee]

I believe that the content that one posts to FB does not belong to the poster, but to schmuckerberg. Check the small print on the agreement. Pics, original music, poetry… it’s all his to do with as he chooses.

[ansel12]

This would work well for the predictable Sunday news show talking heads.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

“The impact on the users is much more severe and permanent if that user is deceased and can never return to the social networking platform.”

Maybe its just me, but I can think of a lot of things that would have a more severe impact on me from dying than not being able to post on social media.

[Leaning Right]

> The company’s developments suggest that… <

AI has great power to do harm. So warnings about AI mischief are appropriate. But when I see words like “suggest” in an article, I wonder if the author is just trying to drum up a little controversy.

It all goes back to what Honest Abe said many years ago.

[drwoof]

Seems almost, well, satanic, don’t it? The promise/guarantee of Life Everlasting, but in only in the ether of the electrons behind what we see as ‘the internet’. Quite the hollow deception...

[Wuli]

Which leads to a question I have.

Why do many people not request Facebook remove the account of their deceased relative, and just leave it hanging there (with no new postings) forever. Facebook will remove an account entirely when provided documentation of a death.

A new tribute page I could understand. But what usually happens I do not understand.

[Liz]

Nothing new here. Democrats have been voting from the grave for decades.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Hah!
Good one

[Varda]

Facebook allows fraud from strangers. It happened to me years ago (still going on) and recently I was watching a youtuber who had to caution his audience that Facebook allowed someone to impersonate him for the purpose of sales fraud.

[Vaduz]

Yes and the democrats have renamed them AI.

[discostu]

Of course the patent doesn’t grant them that. The patent means anybody else trying to do that owes them money. They already wrote the code to do it, now they just want the money.

[discostu]

Too much hassle. Or maybe they still want the memories that are there. Or they just don’t want to take that one final step that to them truly says the person is dead.

My suggestion is: don’t worry about it. Every handles it differently.

[dayglored]

At the rate AI is progressing, I’d say they’ll have a working internal prototype by the end of 2026, and they’ll roll it out as an option for users in 2027.

[Uncle Miltie]

This is wrong.

G-d’a nature does not allow for communicating with the dead.

This will not end well.

[dfwgator]

[Uncle Miltie]

lol!