Meta

• WhatsApp enters the original content court with Giannis Antetokounmpo
• Facebook says it’s testing encryption that’ll actually keep users’ DMs private

  
• Facebook’s splitting ad revenue with creators who use licensed songs

  Creators who use songs by artists like Post Malone and Tove Lo in their Facebook videos can now earn 20% of in-stream ad revenue generated by those videos.

  
• Instagram now lets you shop in DMs

  
• Meta survey: 58% of consumers purchased a product in the past six months because of a creator’s recommendation
• The FTC says social media is rife with crypto scams—and victims are losing hundreds of millions of dollars
• NFTs are coming to Instagram
• Facebook’s giving up on podcasts, its Clubhouse copycat, and apparently audio as a whole
• Meta says it’s messing with Reels payouts, introduces new Facebook plug for creators to earn up to $4,000
• Instagram users now spend 20% of their time on the app watching Reels
• Dispo among those hit by “burdensome, overbroad, vexatious and harassing” subpeona from Meta
• Horizon Worlds is rolling out a Reels-esque creator bonus program