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• Facebook Launches ‘News’ Tab, Will Pay (Some) Partner Outlets For Their Content
• Facebook, Under Fire For Political Ad Policies, Lays Out Election Protection Plan

  After facing significant backlash for its recent decision not to ban political ads that contain false information, Facebook today made a flurry of announcements about what it’s doing to prevent interference in the 2020 U.S. Presidential election.

  
• Facebook, YouTube, Twitter Refuse To Remove Trump Campaign Ad That Pushes Biden/Ukraine Conspiracy Theory

  Facebook is refusing to remove a Donald Trump campaign ad that touts the president’s current conspiracy theory du jour: that Democrat rival and former vice president Joe Biden attempted to get a Ukranian prosecutor fired in order to prevent that prosecutor from looking into a company tied to his son.

  
• Facebook, Like Instagram, To Test Hiding ‘Likes’, Reactions, And Video Viewcounts

  Instagram's parent company, Facebook, is taking a page out of the photo and video-sharing company's playbook by publicly hiding 'like' counts in order to alleviate user pressure, encouraging Facebookers to post more freely without fixating on their content's reception. 

  
• Insights: Apple And Comcast Giveaways May Net Tens Of Millions Of Subscribers And Send SVOD Super Derby Back To Where TV Started
• YouTube, Facebook, Instagram Are Epicenters For Steroid Sales — And So Are Their Recommendation Algorithms (Study)
• Facebook Unveils Several Video Product Updates, Including ‘Live’ Rehearsals, Pre-Scheduled ‘Watch Parties’
• Google And Facebook To Face Antitrust Probes Investigating Their Impact On The Digital Ad Market
• Facebook Watch Partners With International News Organizations To Produce New Slate
• Facebook Is Developing ‘Threads,’ An Instagram-Adjacent Messaging App That Automatically Shares Location, Battery Life Data (Report)
• Bernie Su’s Livestreamed Interactive Sci-Fi Series ‘Artificial’ Brings Twitch Its First Emmy
• Insights: ViacomCBS, Tumblr, And Houseparty – The Companies We Keep, And Those We Can’t