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This news item is part of the weekly top 5 news bulletin (from Week 2, Dec 2022) specially packaged for leaders of Nonprofits, Churches, and Faith-based Social Ventures.

Meta has announced that they are bringing their age verification tools to Facebook Dating. Initially they used these tools earlier in June 2022 on Instagram to verify the age of Instagram users and they say that this has been successful so they are bringing it as a natural progression to their next important product that could benefit from this which is Facebook Dating. So this age verification will make sure that the users are 18 and above to start using this feature and they will use Video Selfie as one of those tools and the other is uploading the ID to verify the age.
Here is the full list of the Top 5 News Items from Week 2, December 2022 with source links from Google, Instagram, YouTube, Meta, Uniswap, Web3.
🗞️ News 1: Instagram releases Gen-Z Trend Report 2023 on cultural & social trends
Source: Instagram
🗞️ News 2: YouTube answers policy questions & releases Shorts Thumbnail selection
🗞️ News 3: Meta’s Facebook Dating feature is getting new age-verification tools
Source: Meta
🗞️ News 4: Google adds new ‘Related Topics’ buttons to improve guided search
Source: Google
🗞️ News 5: [Web3] NFTs come to Uniswap + OpenSea pays $1 Billion in royalties
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Author of The Connected Church. Social Media and Digital Marketing Consultant for Nonprofits, Faith-based Organisations, Churches, and Ministries.