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• Creators to concoct menus as Popchew raises $3.6 million from Jake Paul’s Anti-Fund and others
• Facebook’s collegiate platform didn’t even last two school years

  Facebook Campus was intended as a platform through which college students could connect with others at their schools. It's going away.

  
• YouTube Millionaires: Matty Benedetto’s fake inventions are helping him build a very real company

  Deatherage launched an education-focused Patreon, where nearly 1,000 people pay for his regularly updated library of how-to-sew videos, his hand-designed clothing patterns (which Deatherage releases in sizes double zero to 32), and access to a Discord community of fellow fashion enthusiasts.

  
• Meta, Rolling Stone team up to spotlight creators

  Musicians like Tone Stith and Destiny Rogers will appear at co-branded Meta and Rolling Stone events that will go live at SXSW and Coachella.

  
• Under new leader Parag Agrawal, Twitter eyes decentralized social media
• Does TikTok harm the mental health of minors? A group of attorneys general want to find out.
• Epic Games to make some music with Bandcamp acquisition
• Live from N̶e̶w̶ ̶Y̶o̶r̶k̶ TikTok, it’s S̶a̶t̶u̶r̶d̶a̶y̶ ̶N̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ Stapleview!
• With Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen in attendance, President Biden’s State of the Union takes on social media
• There’s an Uppbeat solution for copyright-free music on YouTube, TikTok, and Twitch
• He was an anonymous teenage gamer. One shot later, Sceptic became an esports pro.
• Who will control the future of metaverse fashion?