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• Meta hopes “platform agnostic” creators will flock to its events at VidCon
• TikTok, Meta, Snap, and YouTube are waiving their rainbow flags for Pride Month

  Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and Snap have Pride Month. Creators like Patrick Starr, Megan Mitchell, Zaya Perysian, and Halsey are involved.

  
• TikTok’s Cannes Film Festival partnership has hit some major speed bumps

  Rithy Panh has resigned as the jury president of the TikTok Short Film Festival at Cannes. Meanwhile, Meta is on the red carpet.

  
• Facebook’s giving up on podcasts, its Clubhouse copycat, and apparently audio as a whole

  Facebook is outright discontinuing the “Audio” hub it launched in October 2021, which let users find podcasts, Live Audio Rooms, and Soundbites all in one place.

  
• Instagram users now spend 20% of their time on the app watching Reels
• Companies like Google and Meta could face billion-dollar fines if they don’t comply with a new European Union law
• Instagram is testing the ability to make Reels from preexisting templates
• Meta and Spotify are shifting resources away from their Clubhouse competitors
• Spring has hired a Facebook alum as its President and Chief Operating Officer
• Dispo among those hit by “burdensome, overbroad, vexatious and harassing” subpeona from Meta
• Horizon Worlds is rolling out a Reels-esque creator bonus program
• Facebook needed a way to stay ahead of TikTok. So it paid for smear campaigns in local newspapers.