Microsoft’s Xbox publishes its first transparency report on content moderation and reveals it took action against more than 4.3M inauthentic accounts in H1 2022 (Cecilia D’Anastasio/Bloomberg)

Sara Fischer / Axios:
Memo: Meta plans to merge its business integrity unit, which moderates ads, and central integrity team, which moderates posts; the team will have ~3,000 people  —  Meta is merging its business integrity unit, the team that moderates ad content, with its central integrity team …

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft reports Q1 Windows OEM revenue down 15% YoY, devices revenue up 2% YoY, Xbox hardware revenue up 13%, and Xbox content and services revenue down 3%  —  It’s a new financial year for Microsoft, and the Windows and Xbox maker has just posted the first quarter of its 2023 financial results today.

Cecilia D’Anastasio / Bloomberg:
YouTube names Leo Olebe, who held executive roles in Google Play’s games partnership division and at Facebook, as head of its gaming unit  —  YouTube named a new head of its gaming unit after an eight-month vacancy for the position.  —  Leo Olebe has held executive roles …

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft says Xbox Game Pass is profitable and accounts for ~15% of Xbox content and services revenue, after revealing PC Game Pass subscriptions rose 159% YoY  —  Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has revealed that the company’s Xbox Game Pass subscription service is already profitable.

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Satya Nadella says more than 20M people have streamed games using Xbox Cloud Gaming, double the 10M figure that Microsoft shared in April 2022  —  More than 20 million people have streamed games using Xbox Cloud Gaming, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Tuesday during the company’s first-quarter fiscal 2023 earnings call.

Cecilia D’Anastasio / Bloomberg:
An analysis of Twitch streams from October 2020 to August 2022 shows Twitch’s moderation tools often failed to stop children streaming and adults grooming them  —  The gaming platform’s design enables people to find and exploit kids in real-time  —  Graphics and illustrations by Rachael Dottle