The federal trial pitting 29 states against Meta, opened August 18, 2026, surfaces a structural evidentiary gap: whether an independently fixed determination record from an internal detection system exists at all. A doctrinal analysis, taking no position on the trial's outcome.

Meta's open-weight Muse Glimmer is exempt from AI Act technical documentation under Article 53(2). Two lawful thresholds later, no party is required to document the exact state deployed. SOURCE 0 seals it anyway.