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Inside Meta: How mixed signals from regulators impact AI and business

01 October 2025

In this episode of The Influencers, Meta's Ania Helseth joins Hogan Lovells' Leo von Gerlach to talk candidly about Europe's fast-moving AI regulatory landscape.

About Meta: Meta Platforms, Inc. is a multinational technology conglomerate known for its social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp, and its development of virtual and augmented reality technologies through its Reality Labs segment.

About Hogan Lovells: Our Digital Transformation offering helps clients navigate the full breadth and depth of the seismic forces impacting their organizations – and today's society. Leveraging team members across our 2800 lawyers on six continents, we provide integrated advice on the multifaceted regulatory, governance and enforcement issues and risks that arise across the many technologies and trends that comprise the new digital future.

Inside Meta: How Mixed Signals from Regulators Impact AI and Business

In this episode of The Influencers, Meta's Ania Helseth joins Hogan Lovells' Leo von Gerlach to talk candidly about Europe's fast-moving AI regulatory landscape. From the AI Act to the EU's code of practice, she explains why a patchwork of rules and signals is making it “really difficult to start launching new products when you don't really know what rules apply to you.” For in-house lawyers and business leaders, it's a rare inside view on how regulation is shaping innovation—and what to watch next.

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