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• Meta, Rolling Stone team up to spotlight creators
• Under new leader Parag Agrawal, Twitter eyes decentralized social media

  With a decentralized social media platform like Bluesky, users could aggregate disparate feeds, form their own communities, and develop their own tools.

  
• Does TikTok harm the mental health of minors? A group of attorneys general want to find out.

  Eight state attorneys general are taking up Joe Biden's pledge to hold social media platforms accountable. They are looking into TikTok and its algorithm.

  
• On The Podcast: Television. Advertising. Dollars.

  Has Snapchat cracked the short-form monetization puzzle? Maybe!

  
• Twitter is trying to delegate fact-checking to volunteer users. So, uh, how’s that working out?
• Epic Games to make some music with Bandcamp acquisition
• Netflix acquires second studio to build free video games for its subscribers
• Live from N̶e̶w̶ ̶Y̶o̶r̶k̶ TikTok, it’s S̶a̶t̶u̶r̶d̶a̶y̶ ̶N̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ Stapleview!
• Creators On The Rise: Brady Brandwood jailbroke a grocery store lobster. Now Leon is charming the internet.
• 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?
• TikTok’s upping its video length to 10 minutes. What could that mean for creators?
• The D’Amelio family’s next brand partnership is working out
• Top 50 Most Viewed U.S. YouTube Channels • Week Of 02/27/2022
• Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 02/27/2022
• YouTube demonetizes Russia’s state-owned channels, citing “extraordinary circumstances”
• Digital Brand Architects names early directors Ariana Pappas and Alix Frank VPs of talent
• On The Podcast: Let’s slap some ads in the middle of those stories.
• Denny’s is putting 24 TikTok creators’ dream dishes on its menu
• Meta’s ‘We The Culture’ initiative for Black creators turns its lens on Reels
• Clash is telling people exactly how much money its users make each month
• Casey Neistat is premiering a David Dobrik documentary at SXSW