Facebook adds Pages features to let creators endorse each other, make content exclusive to top fans and subscribers, earn “rising creator” labels, and more (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Meta updates Stars on Facebook including testing automatic onboarding for creators, bringing Stars to images and text, and Stars Party to Facebook Reels  —  Meta announced today that’s introducing a number of new creator updates across Instagram and Facebook.

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YouTube is introducing a new “Live Q&A” feature to make it easier for creators to select and manage questions from viewers in the chat during livestreams  —  YouTube is introducing a new “Live Q&A” feature that is designed to make it easier for creators to interact with viewers during livestreams.

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Twitter rolls out its edit button, letting users edit five times in 30 minutes, to Blue subscribers in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, coming soon to the US  —  Twitter is rolling out the ability to edit tweets to Blue subscribers in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the social network announced on Monday.

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Analysis: high-profile Republican members of Congress saw an uptick in Twitter followers in the first few weeks of Musk’s reign, while Democrats lost followers  —  Shift in follower counts for Elizabeth Warren, Ted Cruz show how the platform is beginning to change under Musk

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Tumblr introduces “community labels”, letting users tag posts about drug and alcohol addiction, violence, and sexual content; no content rules are changing  —  Tumblr announced a “community labels” feature this week that will make it easier for bloggers to filter out sensitive content that they may not want to see.

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Instagram debuts transparency tools to let users with professional accounts, like businesses and creators, know if their content is ineligible to be recommended  —  Instagram announced today that it’s introducing new transparency tools so you can see whether your photos and videos are recommended in the app.