Meta has "excluded" the music repertoire by tens of thousands of Italian songwriters from Facebook, in a "shock move", as reported by MBW. The Italian Society of Authors and Publishers (SIAE) says that “Meta presented a ‘take it or leave it’ economic offer, threatening to remove the content if the offer was not accepted by SIAE”. SIAE didn’t accept this offer, so Meta “suddenly and unilaterally” started to remove its content.

Ghost Cult magazine reached out to Facebook to find out what exactly do the new rules, coming in effect October 1, mean to FB video-streamers. In short, videos with music are okay, but not long interrupted videos, uploads of entire albums with no visual, or long music clips with no video, uninterrupted.

TikTok has announced an in-app feature that allows users to donate to a number of charities. Content creators can now embed ‘donation stickers’ within their videos and livestreams that will encourage users to donate funds to a selection of approved organisations. Facebook will soon allow artists to charge fans for access to livestreams hosted through the platform.

Yesterday it was sexually inappropriate, today it's "a culturally significant image", which it really is. A good move, Facebook! Social media also revealed that it would now consider the newsworthiness or importance of the subject matter in the future, when deciding whether to allow posts containing similar images, Ultimate Classic Rock reports.

Facebook has started banning artwork from Led Zeppelin's classic album 'Houses of the Holy', and really, a classic design. The cover was created by Hipgnosis designer Aubrey Powell, the photo was originally captured among the basalt columns of Northern Ireland's Giant's Causeway. In the surreal image, a group of naked figures (who were portrayed by […]