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• 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

  Meta is bringing new ad formats to Instagram and Facebook Reels, including AR ads, carousel ads, and post-loop ads.

  
• YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter have become proxy battlegrounds in the war over January 6

  Republicans want to end social media censorship. Democrats remember January 6. YouTube, Meta, Twitter, and TikTok are caught in between.

  
• An anti-censorship law from Texas just got upheld. Will it head back to the Supreme Court?

  Texas' HB 20 law, which attempts to ban censorship of all kinds on platforms like YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, just won a legal victory.

  
• Ninja said he was taking a break from the internet. Instead, he streamed on six platforms at once.
• The Facebook Gaming app will “no longer be available” after October 28
• Facebook says it’s testing encryption that’ll actually keep users’ DMs private
• Meta is reportedly paying creators up to $3,000 to test a new live streaming platform
• TikTok’s share of the U.S. influencer marketing industry is surpassing Facebook’s
• Facebook’s splitting ad revenue with creators who use licensed songs
• JoJo Siwa celebrates her queer identity in first episode of Facebook’s ‘JoJo Goes’
• Zuckerberg talks creator monetization, says Facebook won’t take a cut until 2024