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• Creators earned over $2 billion on Facebook in 2024. Stories monetization will take earnings even higher.
• Can creators make Facebook cool again?

  
• Meta axes fact-checking program, is working with Trump administration to “promote free expression”

  In a video posted this morning, founder/CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company is making major changes with the way it handles disinformation--starting with eliminating its official fact-checking program and replacing professional checkers with an X-clone Community Notes system.

  
• Meta envisions a future where human creators share the stage with AI content mills

  "We expect these AIs to actually, over time, exist on our platforms, kind of in the same way that accounts do," Hayes said. "They'll have bios and profile pictures and be able to generate and share content powered by AI on the platform…that's where we see all of this going."

  
• Facebook is now (kinda) paying regular people to use Facebook
• Meta is uniting the revenue streams it has used to pay more than four million creators
• Twitch unbans Trump, former president now free on all major platforms
• Meta is using AI to power brand and creator matchmaking on Facebook and Instagram
• Instagram is testing a program that turns creators into AI chatbots
• Facebook merges Reels, long-form videos, and live content with new video player
• Facebook wants to take Performance Bonus earnings to the moon by removing monthly limits
• Facebook courts creators with performance-based payouts for its ad formats