Facebook Owning Your Photos Fact Check

Log In · From Snopes You're browsing with fewer ads for the next 24 hours, thanks to our sponsor . Learn more → ... A new Facebook rule starts "tomorrow" allowing Meta the rights to users' photos.

Users were told to post "I do not authorize META, Facebook or any entity associated with Facebook to use my photos, information, messages or posts."

Given its popularity across the world, our readers have frequently contacted us looking for the truth behind claims regarding the social media platform, Meta, and Zuckerberg who, in early 2025, announced he was cutting ties with third-party fact-checkers in favor of a Community Notes model, as seen on X. As such, we've assembled a collection of 20 stories from recent years that looked into various rumors about Facebook and Meta.

The license you grant to Facebook does not give other individual users the right to use your photos outside of the platform. While using built-in features like the “Share” button is generally permitted by the site’s terms, other users ...

“The passage in our terms of service that covers your information and your content has not changed,” he tells TIME. “We can’t sell property that we don’t have. You own the things you share on Facebook.”

A Facebook post you may have seen claims a new policy starts tomorrow allowing parent-company Meta to do what it wants with your photos.

There is no new Facebook rule.

There is a rumor circulating that Facebook is making a change related to ownership of users’ information or the content they post to the site. This is false. Anyone who uses Facebook owns and controls the content and information they post, ...

A long-running social media hoax is circulating again, falsely claiming that Facebook's parent company can use photos posted by users. ... This scam, described as a "come and go" scam, periodically resurfaces to target new victims.