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• Meta expands Facebook Reels monetization with performance-based payout model
• Meta bets on Reels on its Facebook Watch hub

  Meta announced new features for Facebook Reels, including a hub within Facebook Watch and options to show more or less of specific categories.

  
• Facebook Watch sunsets originals as Meta’s Head of Development and Programming departs

  As Meta lays off Head of Development and Programming Mina Lefevre, it is pivoting away from Facebook Watch originals like 'Red Table Talk.'

  
• Studio71 expands Facebook network through pacts with Trevor Wallace, Ronda Rousey, Donut Media

  Studio71 is expanding the size of its Facebook network by signing top creators Trevor Wallace, Ronda Rousey, and Donut Media.

  
• Meta is doing away with monthly Reels Play payouts
• Now you can pay to be verified on Facebook and Instagram, too
• Fake animal rescues are still rampant on YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram (Study)
• Meta lays off 11,000 workers to “become a leaner and more efficient company”
• A slew of new ad formats are coming to Reels on Facebook and Instagram
• YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter have become proxy battlegrounds in the war over January 6
• An anti-censorship law from Texas just got upheld. Will it head back to the Supreme Court?
• Ninja said he was taking a break from the internet. Instead, he streamed on six platforms at once.