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• Snap Acquires Ukraine Startup ‘AI Factory,’ Which Helped Build Its ‘Cameos’ Feature, For $166 Million
• Snapchat To Introduce ‘Bitmoji TV’, Fully-Animated Cartoons Starring Users’ Bitmojis

  A major Snapchat update next month will give Bitmojis center stage.

  
• Google Will No Longer Allow Political Ad Targeting Based On Party Affiliation, Voter Records

  Google has finally weighed on the political ad debate -- a conundrum facing every major tech platform in the run-up to the 2020 election, as they weigh how how to contend with a proliferation of misinformation that was discovered to have been weaponized in the last Presidential contest.

  
• Snapchat Pledges $750,000 To Support AR Influencers In 2020

  As a leader in the user-generated augmented reality space, Snapchat is putting more funds squarely behind influencers in order to generate more AR content for its platform.

  
• Evan Spiegel Says Snapchat Has A Team That Fact-Checks All Political Ads
• Digital Star Emma Chamberlain Grows Up In Original Snapchat Series Called ‘Adulting’
• Snapchat Adds 7 Million Daily Active Users In Q3, Looks Ahead To Wearable AR Tech
• Whistle Acquires Elisabeth Murdoch-Founded, Snap-Backed Content Studio ‘Vertical Networks’
• Instagram Reportedly Developing A TikTok Copycat Feature Called ‘Clips’
• Snapchat And Spotify Duet On Direct Share Feature
• Snap Unveils Third Generation Of $380 Spectacles, With Two Cameras To Create AR Effects
• Snapchat Launches Latest Batch Of ‘Creator Shows’ With The Kaplan Twins, Matt Steffanina, Teala Dunn