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      "text": "and credential-storage concerns. Meta, which launched Muse on Sep 8, declined to pull the bot. It is the sharpest instance yet of a platform refusing a third-party agent — a concrete data point for anyone whose GTM plan assumes agents can shop, browse or buy across sites they don't control.\n\n- What is confirmed: Amazon blocked Meta's Muse via pop-up notices on its retail site (Sep 20), Meta declined to remove it, and Amazon cited terms violations, non-self-identification and credential-storage concerns (Bloomberg, GeekWire, Forbes; WebFetch 2026-09-22). Muse launched Sep 8.\n- What is contested: the specifics — especially the credential-capture allegation — are Amazon's characterization and are disputed by Meta. Treat the reasons as claims, the block itself as fact.\n- The GTM-stack read: this is the concrete version of the \"own your channel\" argument. When a personal agent is the interface, the destination platform still holds the veto — it can decide the agent doesn't get in. A GTM motion that depends on third-party agents transacting on surfaces you don't own has a new, demonstrated failure mode: the surface can block the agent. It also foreshadows the standards fight (self-identifying agents, sanctioned access) that will decide whether agentic commerce is cooperative or adversarial. Plan for both.\n- Curated from the GTM Stacker signal registry (2026-09-22 pass: viral-posts brief, cross-corroborated by the studio news lane)."
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