Meta begins testing a single interface to manage Facebook and Instagram accounts and streamlines registration to help users create accounts on both services (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Sources: Elon Musk is now in charge of Twitter; CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal have left the company’s San Francisco headquarters and will not be returning  —  – CNBC’s David Faber reported that Tesla CEO Elon Musk is now in charge of Twitter.  — Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal …

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Early Twitter investor Chris Sacca says Elon Musk is “alone right now and winging this” and needs people around him who can “speak some truth to power”  —  – Venture capitalist Chris Sacca was one of Twitter’s first investors and an early user.

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Amazon’s senior VP of global media and entertainment Jeff Blackburn will leave in early 2023; Blackburn left Amazon in February 2021 and rejoined in May 2021  —  – Blackburn will remain at the company through early 2023 to “ensure a smooth transition.”  — Blackburn joined Amazon in 1998 …

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Meta’s stock has lost 61% of its value in the past 12 months, by far the biggest slide among Big Tech stocks and more than 2x the drop in the Nasdaq Composite  —  – Meta shares dropped below the company’s pandemic nadir during the day on Friday and are down more than 60% for the year.

TechCrunch:
BrandTotal and Unimania agreed to a permanent injunction banning them from using and scraping Facebook and Instagram, and will pay a “significant financial sum”  —  Facebook parent Meta has settled a lawsuit in the U.S. against two companies that had engaged in data scraping operations …

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Amazon, Nike, Best Buy, Twitch, and other big brands removed the ability to sign in with Facebook in recent years, some executives say due to privacy concerns  —  – Companies like Dell have been removing social logins from their websites.  — Logging in with Facebook credentials used …