Updates:
✔️Facebook is trying to lure some of the big influencers on TikTok over to their new version of the app, called Reels. Click here to read more.
✔️Facebook also just released their tenth new app, it’s a collage board tool called E.gg. Read more about this update here.
✔️Also in Facebook news...their 'Summer of Support' business education program continues this week, with a range of courses looking at how businesses can use Messenger, Facebook groups and more. Click here to read more about Summer of Support.
✔️The CEOs of Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple all faced the House Judiciary Committee in the US last Wednesday, as part of a five-hour hearing which intended to establish whether the tech giants have been operating in an anti-competitive manner. Learn more about this news here.
✔️Twitter has updated its policies to now include links to hateful content within its parameters to unacceptable activity. Read more about this update here.
✔️US-based TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer has issued his first public statement, in which he takes an aggressive stance in facing up to the challenges posed by regulators and competitors, whom, he says, are seeking to shut the app down. More about this news here.
✔️ Recap of this week’s news
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