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• YouTube will reinstate some banned channels. Here’s how that “Second Chance” will work.
• Meta’s TikTok-ification continues with a new algorithm for Facebook Reels

  Meta is switching up the recommendation algorithm for Facebook Reels to help users locate content they are most interested in.

  
• As motorsports content revs up, Amelia Dimoldenberg will become F1’s ‘Passenger Princess’

  'Chicken Shop Date' host Amelia Dimoldenberg has partnered with motorsports organization F1 for a series titled 'Passenger Princess'.

  
• No bots here: Epic sues two game developers after paying them “tens of thousands of dollars” for alleged fake engagement

  Epic says the developers, Michigan-based Idris Nahdi and Ayob Nasser, created over 20,000 fake bot accounts and sent them off to each other's Islands, artificially inflating the Islands' engagement. Between them, they had 10 active Islands, and the bots were not deployed to any other Islands--just each other's.

  
• Gap Inc. embraces influencers at scale with its new creator “affiliate and advocacy” program
• Top 5 Branded Videos of the Week: Got jerky?
• Steven Bartlett co-founds a new video podcast distribution platform–and, of course, it has AI
• Instagram’s putting a ring on it (and by “it” we mean creators)
• Top 50 Most Subscribed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 10/05/2025
• Sora soars to the top of app charts with its AI slop TikTok copycat
• The UAE’s BRIDGE Summit wants 60,000 attendees to connect with entertainment, entrepreneurship, and policymaking in the Middle East
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 10/05/2025