Commentary

Portuguese Digital Rights Group Sues Meta, TikTok, and YouTube Over Addictive App Design

Portugal’s digital rights group D3 has filed four collective lawsuits against Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube,...

Platform

Threads Rebuilds Creator Insights Dashboard With Plain-Language Performance Summaries

Threads has rolled out a redesigned insights experience for creators, adding plain-language summaries and new performance...

Commentary

California Sends Ban on Addictive Social Media Features for Teens to Newsom’s Desk

California lawmakers passed legislation Monday banning social media platforms from offering minors under 16 features like...

Platform

Tanzanian Influencer Mange Kimambi Sues Meta Over Alleged Account Suspensions Linked to Government Pressure

Tanzanian activist and social media influencer Mange Kimambi has sued Meta in California state court, alleging...

Platform

Report Shows Meta Enlisting Parent Influencers to Sell Teen Accounts as Bans Loom

Meta is running paid influencer campaigns across multiple countries promoting its Teen Accounts safety tools, using...

Commentary

How Meta’s Youth Safety Settlement Impacts Creator Campaigns: 15 Creator Economy Experts Weigh In

Meta Platforms has agreed to pay up to $18 billion over the next decade and impose...

Platform

Meta to Pay Up to $16.7B in Child Safety Settlement With 29 States

Meta Platforms has agreed to pay a maximum of $16.7 billion to settle a case brought...

Platform

Florida Breaks From Meta’s $18B Teen Safety Settlement, Heads to Trial

Florida has rejected a multistate settlement in which Meta agreed to pay up to $18 billion...

Agency

How Soren Iverson Turned Daily Satirical Posts Into a Design Agency With Figma, Duolingo, and Meta As Clients

One evening in late 2022, product designer Soren Iverson assembled a concept: iOS alarms with Figma’s...

Platform

Meta Says It Removed Over 750,000 Suspected U-16 Accounts in Australia Since Ban Took Effect

Meta said that it has taken down more than 756,000 accounts it suspected belonged to Australians...

Commentary

Meta Partnership Ads Outperform Licensed UGC Across $130M in Ad Spend, Report Finds

Meta Partnership Ads delivered a 19% higher click-through rate, a 10% higher conversion rate, and a...

Tech

Ex-Meta Creative Strategy Lead Mack Reynolds Joins Shuttlerock to Help Brands Overcome Creative Complexity

The question most global brands are struggling with in digital media is not what to say....

Agency

The Script That Scales: How Davis Creative Agency Turns Story Into Performance

For many direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands, scaling on Meta means producing more ads. Joshua Davis argues that’s...

Platform

Meta Adds Parental Supervision Tools to Threads

Meta will roll out parental supervision tools to Threads in the U.S. starting next week, giving...

Agency

Dentsu Integrates Meta’s Creator Marketplace APIs for Faster Creator Activation

Dentsu UK&I has launched Creator & Trends Studio, a proprietary planning platform that integrates Meta’s Creator...

Platform

Meta Launches Live Video Ads, Virtual Cards, and Expanded Affiliate Partnerships in Cannes Commerce Push

Meta announced three new commerce initiatives ahead of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, expanding...

Platform

Meta Adds AI Assistant, Desktop Version to Edits as Creator Platform Competition Intensifies

Meta previewed two major additions to its Edits video-editing app at an invite-only creator event in...

Tech

Modern.ai CEO Adam Wellington: DTC Brands Are Scaling on Data They Cannot Trust 

A brand’s Meta dashboard reported a customer acquisition cost of $27. The actual number was $274....

Platform

Meta Poaches Snap’s Creator Partnerships Exec to Lead Wearables Influencer Strategy

Meta has hired Jim Shepherd as Director of Content and Creator Partnerships, with a particular focus...

Platform

Meta Tests Episodic Content Hubs to Instagram, Facebook Reels With New ‘Series’ Feature

Meta is testing a new feature called “Series” for Reels on Instagram and Facebook, the company...

Commentary

Creator Economy Job Radar, June 2, 2026: Meta, Coca-Cola, TikTok, Duolingo, and More

Major platforms and consumer brands are driving Creator Economy hiring in early June, with Meta, TikTok,...

Platform

Meta Rolls Out ‘Plus’ Subscriptions Across Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp

Meta has launched subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp globally, offering users paid access to...

Platform

Meta Launches ‘Forum,’ a Reddit-Like Platform Built on Facebook Groups

Meta has released a standalone app called “Forum,” a dedicated platform for Facebook Groups that positions...

Platform

Meta Confirms Connect 2026 for September, Teases Wearables and AI Advances

Meta has confirmed its annual Connect conference will take place September 23 and 24 at the...

Platform

Meta Draws Bipartisan Senate Fire for Pulling Social Media Addiction Lawsuit Ads

U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark...