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Meta Verified will allow Facebook and Instagram users to pay to verify their accounts. Meta is piloting a new subscription service called Meta Verified, allowing Facebook and Instagram users to pay to confirm their reports.

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This week, WhatsApp added a number of new features, including the option to mute others during group calls (via Android Central). This sanity-saving tool appears to be useful not only for muting folks who fail to do so, but also if you're in the same room as someone else in the conversation and don't want to hear an echo of their words.

After 14 years as one of the most powerful figures at a company that transformed Silicon Valley, the chief operating officer saw Facebook through multiple controversies and transformed it into the profitable juggernaut it is today announced she will step down from her role as chief operating officer of Facebook on Wednesday.

What is currently happening to the recruitment angle of Meta, are they layoff their employees or is there a freeze in their hiring?