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Meta says its new verification subscription service, Meta Verified, is now live in the US.
Meta Verified will cost $11.99 per month per platform on the web and $14.99 on mobile.
According to Meta, US subscribers will get exclusive stickers on Facebook and Instagram Stories and Facebook Reels, along with 100 stars a month, to show support for their favorite creators.

Meta released a framework for exposing and combating malicious online campaigns from election lies to terrorist recruitment.
A paper authored by Meta's Ben Nimmo and Eric Hutchins details how to create a "kill chain" for targeting key links in deception operations.
"Human stupidity is one of the great powers in the universe, but this kill chain is trying to identify all the different kinds of operations that can try to target human weakness," Nimmo said.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced the company is laying off an additional 10,000 employees and closing additional open roles.
Meta laid off 11,000 in November, the biggest layoff of 2022.
Rumors have been circulating for weeks that Meta planned another round of layoffs, which Zuckerberg has just announced.

Meta’s Commerce & Fintech lead Stephane Kasriel has announced via Twitter that the company will wind down its work with digital collectable NFTs (non-fungible tokens) and focus on different ways to “support creators, people, and businesses.”
The decision to scale back work on NFTs comes as the company, across the board, tries to work more efficiently due to a worsening economy.

Meta has decided to block Canadians’ ability to view or share news content on Facebook and Instagram if Ottawa’s online news bill becomes law.
Meta made the decision this week amid concerns that it is not clear what the financial burden imposed by the legislation, known as Bill C-18, will be.
The bill would make Google and Meta compensate news organizations for posting or linking to their work.

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