- 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.
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- Pantsuit Nation, a private Facebook group created in 2016 to support Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, has announced that it will be shutting down.
- The group, which had over 4 million members, was founded by Libby Chamberlain and quickly grew to become a powerful online community for women and allies to share stories and support each other.
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- Former President Donald Trump can once again upload new videos to YouTube, the company saidon Friday.
- And within hours of the announcement, he posted his first video titled, "I'M BACK!"
- The 11-second video shows Trump talking at a rally saying, "Sorry to keep you waiting. Complicated business. Complicated."
- Trump also posted "I'M BACK!" and the video to Facebook, which lifted its ban on his content in January.
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- Facebook and Instagram have started rolling out a new paid verification process in the US, allowing users to pay to become verified.
- The company is charging $11.99 per month per platform (or $143.88 per year) for users who sign up over the web.
- Customers who subscribe over iOS or Android will have to pay even more at $14.99 per month per account per platform.
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- A fake ChatGPT-branded Chrome browser extension has been found to come with capabilities to hijack Facebook accounts and create rogue admin accounts, highlighting one of the different methods cyber criminals are using to distribute malware.
- "By hijacking high-profile Facebook business accounts, the threat actor creates an elite army of Facebook bots and a malicious paid media apparatus," Guardio Labs researcher Nati Tal said in a technical report.
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