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Meta is now testing a new way to sign up for Threads, its X (Twitter) competitor, by allowing users to create an account using Facebook instead of Instagram. This change, spotted by Social Media Today and confirmed in a Meta support article, isn't widely available yet, but it marks a shift in how the platform handles user onboarding.

Meta is working on ways to credit original creators and tackle spammy, repetitive content.

Meta will begin removing monetization privileges and stop recommending content from accounts that repeatedly post unoriginal content, many times aided by AI.

Deleting your Facebook account will remove your visible presence from the social media network, but it doesn't remove everything you ever touched on the platform. Deleting Facebook also severs ties to Facebook Messenger, but your messages to friends will still be accessible to them.

WILMINGTON, Delaware, July 17 (Reuters) - A lawyer for Meta Platforms (META.O) shareholders who were suing Mark Zuckerberg and other company leaders told a Delaware judge on Thursday that the parties had reached a settlement agreement, ending a $8 billion trial over Facebook’s user privacy violations.

A man accused of sexually assaulting a Pennsylvania college student in 2013 and later sending her a Facebook message that said “So I raped you” has pleaded guilty. Thirty-two-year-old Ian Cleary faces a proposed 4- to 8-year sentence after Thursday's plea.