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Instagram and Facebook set to get paid-for verification

The feature will be made available this week

Manchester Evening News

Meta to test out monthly paid verification subscription service

Meta Verified is aimed at "increasing authenticity and security across our services," Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said.

Axios

Meta launches subscription service for Facebook and Instagram

Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. is launching a subscription service called Meta Verified that will include a handful of additional perks and features, including account verification badges for those who pay.

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Mark Zuckerberg announces Meta Verified subscription service for Facebook and Instagram following Elon Musk’s Twitter Blue

Facebook and Instagram users will need to confirm their identity with a government ID to receive a verification badge.

Fortune

Facebook and Instagram to roll out paid subscription

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook and Instagram owner Meta will launch a paid subscription service starting at $11.99 a month allowing users to verify their accounts, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Sunday, following a similar move by Elon Musk at Twitter.

Bangkok Post

Supreme Court weighs liability shield for internet giants

A lawsuit against YouTube from the family of an American college student who was killed by Islamic State gunmen in Paris in 2015 is at the center of a closely watched Supreme Court case being argued Tuesday

The Independent UK

The burden of being named James Bond

Filmmaker Matthew Bauer says sharing the name of the famous spy comes with "this idea of a certain masculinity"

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Revealed: the US adviser who tried to swing Nigeria’s 2015 election

Sam Patten, an American consultant later mired in controversy, exploited emails obtained by Tal Hanan’s team

The Guardian - UK

The Supreme Court is about to hear case that could change the internet as we know it

A Supreme Court hearing next week could shine a light on how Congress could clamp down on tech, and the future of free speech online.

Fortune

California lawmakers take aim at social media role in youth fentanyl use and sex trafficking

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — How much responsibility do social media platforms bear when people use them to sell kids a deadly dose of fentanyl, pay teenagers to livestream strip teases or recruit minors who are sold for sex?

Los Angeles Times

AI's threat to Google is more about advertising income than being the number one search engine

Google’s dominance as the most visited website has been undisputed since it rose to prominence as the leading search engine in the early 2000s. However, that position could now be facing its biggest ever threat, with the arrival of new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots such as ChatGPT, which can answer…

The Conversation

Meta just gave thousands of employees poor performance reviews that could clear the way for more layoffs during its 'Year of Efficiency'

Threat comes after 11,000 workers lost their jobs in November.

Fortune

Dating website uses mix of AI and humans to find you a perfect match

Suggestions will be offered to improve your profile pictures

Liverpool Echo

TikTok plans 2 more European data centers amid privacy fears

TikTok is planning two more European data centers, as the popular Chinese-owned video sharing app seeks to allay growing concerns about data privacy for its users in the West

The Independent UK

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Instagram May Soon Allow Us To Drop GIFs As Comments, Which Feels Very 2015 Of Them

It seems like some people can use it, while others can't.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Google, Twitter, Meta, Apple Face Tougher EU Online Content Rules

Alphabet Inc's Google, Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc, Twitter and Apple face stricter EU online content rules, based on monthly user numbers published by the companies, which exceeded an EU threshold for big online platforms. The new rules known as the Digital Services Act (DSA) label companies with more than…

The Independent UK

Facebook ran ads in Moldova for oligarch sanctioned by US

Facebook allowed a Moldovan oligarch with ties to the Kremlin to run ads on its platform urging protests against that country's government — even though he and his political party are subject to U.S. sanctions

ABC News

We fact checked Pauline Hanson's claim that a 'race-based rent tax' will throw millions of Australians into poverty. Here's what we found

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson claimed that a "race-based rent tax" will throw millions of Australians into poverty. Is that correct?

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Fortune

YouTube Shorts breeds goodwill among creators with new revenue sharing model

This is what creators report in the first weeks that YouTube has shared Shorts advertising revenue with video makers.

Reason

Josh Hawley's Social Media Ban Will Make Kids More Depressed

When COVID-19 and the U.S. government stopped kids from seeing each other, social media was their lifeline.

Liverpool Echo

How much Logan Paul and KSI really made from Prime

The Youtubers also paid $6.5 million for a 30 second Prime advert during Sunday's Super Bowl

Fortune

Facebook’s increasingly cloudy future in Europe

Europe is Meta’s second most valuable market, after North America. The possibility of its being forced to leave is not just hypothetical.

Newsroom.co.nz

Radio silence on Govt plan to regulate Big Tech

Government plans to subject tech companies like Facebook and Google to the same content regulations as news media and advertisers may have been put on hold.

Bristol Post

“I run a group for women looking for friends and adventure in Bristol”

The Facebook Group ‘Adventure Queens’ is helping break down barriers

Miami Herald

Looking to come to the US, Cubans turn to an unusual market for boat parts: Facebook

When Amauri decided to leave Cuba for the United States, he bought metal sheets to build a rustic boat to take him to the Florida Keys.

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