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• 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

  State attorneys from Texas and New York will separately launch official antitrust investigations into Google and Facebook next week, looking for signs that the companies have harmed consumers and smaller competitors by oppressively dominating the digital advertising space and mishandling users’ data.

  
• Facebook Watch Partners With International News Organizations To Produce New Slate

  Facebook Watch today announced deals with a handful of international news partners, all of which will debut exclusive shows on the service in coming months.

  
• Facebook Is Developing ‘Threads,’ An Instagram-Adjacent Messaging App That Automatically Shares Location, Battery Life Data (Report)

  Facebook may have just paid a record $5 billion fine for mishandling users’ data, but that’s not stopping it from developing a new Instagram-adjacent messaging app that’s intended to let users constantly, automatically share personal information about themselves, including location data and their devices’ battery levels.

  
• 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
• Facebook Opens Instagram’s AR Filter-Building Tool, ‘Spark,’ To Everyone
• IAB Announces Initial Slate For Second Annual NewFronts West, Featuring Facebook, Vevo, Streamys Brand Awards, More
• Facebook Tests Selling Subscriptions To Tastemade Plus, CollegeHumor’s Dropout, BritBox
• Instagram Permanently Suspends Roughly 30 Meme Accounts With Millions Of Followers
• Facebook And Instagram Ban User Posts Selling Alcohol And Tobacco
• Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Says $5 Billion FTC Settlement Terms “Go Beyond Anything Required Under U.S. Law”