1. Snap announced Monday that it's adding a feature that allows users to scan a product they see in real life using the app's camera that will then pop up an Amazon purchase window if it recognizes the product. The feature, which was announced in a company blog post, is being tested on a small group of users this week and is rolling out "slowly," and it also works with scanning bar codes – something that is likely to make traditional retailers even more anxious when it comes to competition from Amazon. "Snapchat has always been the fastest way to communicate, and now it's the fastest way to shop!", the company writes. Snap's troubled stock had a small morning boost following the news, but was already trending back downward as of this writing. – CNBC

2. The legal feud between dating app Bumble and Tinder parent company Match Group is heating up after a previously promised lawsuit from Bumble officially gets filed. As TechCrunch reports, the story of the battle started with aborted acquisition talks last fall in which Bumble was said to be valued at $1 billion, and in which they claim that Match Group later filed a frivolous lawsuit against them for copying Tinder's "card-swipe-based, mutual opt-in premise." Bumble asserts that the original lawsuit was intended to scare off other potential acquisition suitors and lower their sale price, and their $400 million countersuit further claims that Match Group fraudulently sought "confidential and trade secret information" from Bumble. Match Group has already responded publicly to Bumble's suit saying it has "no substance." Further complicating matters: Bumble's founder and CEO Whitney Wolfe was a co-founder of Tinder, and later sued the company in 2014 for sexual harassment. – TECHCRUNCH

3. Facebook is expanding its Ad Breaks program, which adds mid-roll and pre-roll advertising to content from video publishers, to countries across Europe and Latin America. As TechCrunch is reporting, while Ad Breaks was already available last month in all the largest English-speaking markets, Facebook is now rolling it out in 21 new countries as a second phase, including France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Thailand. The new rollout also includes technology for detecting natural breaks in a video where advertising would be most appropriate. – TECHCRUNCH

1. Facebook plans to announce its video chat device “Portal” next week, according to Cheddar. The hardware device will be similar to Amazon’s Echo Show, featuring a screen for video chatting and a camera with facial recognition to connect users to their Facebook accounts. Portal was supposed to be announced in May, but scandals with Cambridge Analytica and Russian election interference forced the company to delay the launch. Other than Oculus, which it acquired in 2014, Portal will be Facebook’s first introduction into the consumer hardware market. — CHEDDAR

2. On Thursday, The Verge announced it had obtained screenshots that showed Instagram was testing a native “re-gram” feature. Instagram has since denied that it is building or testing a way for users to re-share posts from other people’s feeds. The re-sharing feature, which is central to both Facebook and Twitter, has long been requested by Instagram users. Today, third-party apps are needed to re-gram. In an interview with Wired last year, Instagram CEO Kevin System addressed the idea, saying: “We debate the re-share thing a lot… But really that decision is about keeping your feed focused on the people you know rather than the people you know finding other stuff for you to see.” — VERGE

4. Slack announced Monday that it has inked a deal to acquire Astro, the Bay Area-based startup behind the email- and calendar-scanning tool, Astrobot. The deal, which is Slack's largest acquisition to date, marks a further step in Slack's mission to integrate all forms of office communication into their platform, and ultimately to shift all conversations out of email and onto the Slack platform. "Our goal is to make it as easy as possible to help teams shift conversations to where they would be most productive — in a channel," the company writes in a blog post about the acquisition. Astro writes in its own announcement that the company is "excited to build the future of interoperability between Slack messaging, email and calendaring." As Quartz notes, the deal will mean the end of Astrobot itself as of October 10, but all of Astro's 28 employees will be integrated into Slack's staff. – QUARTZ

5. The Markup, a new non-profit news source exploring the impacts of technology companies (and social media) on society, is launching soon out of New York with the help of a $20 million bequest from Craigslist founder Craig Newmark. "We're in an information war now," says Newmark, speaking to the New York Times, adding, "We need the help that only investigative reporting with good data science can provide." Heading up the new site will be two former ProPublica journalists, Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson. Angwin has been a champion of thwarting the polices of social media giants like Facebook that ban the use of automated collection of user information for research purposes – something she and Larson have done to highlight racial bias and the promotion of extremist content within Facebook's algorithm. "Without violating those rules," Angwin wrote last month, "journalists can’t investigate our most important platform for public discourse." – NEW YORK TIMES

6. A former content moderator at Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters filed a lawsuit Friday claiming that the job gave her post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It's a class-action suit but so far she is the only plaintiff. – MOTHERBOARD

7. YouTube has not removed a channel aimed at tweens co-founded by a UK man recently arrested for child molestation. The man, Ian Rylett, who helped found the popular SevenAwesomeKids brand, is accused of inappropriately touching a 16-year-old vlogger he was shooting a video with in a Southern California hotel room. – BUZZFEED

8. Facebook has tapped Ajit Mohan, the head of India's streaming movie service Hotstar, to be its new managing director and VP of Facebook India. Mohan will oversee Facebook's expansion of streaming video in its single biggest global market. – REUTERS

9. John Oliver came after Facebook in a new segment on "Last Week Tonight." He called it "a fetid swamp of mistruths and outright lies, interspersed with an occasional reminder of a dead pet," and provided a more "honest" advertisement for the platform featuring users around the world. – BOING BOING

10. Actor and outspoken conservative James Woods has been locked out of his Twitter account for posting a hoax political meme back in July. Says Woods to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, "If you want to kill my free speech, man up and slit my throat with a knife, don't smother me with a pillow." – CBS NEWS

3. Facebook announced it would no longer offer employees to help political campaigns with their advertising efforts during elections. The company sent assistance to President Trump’s campaign in 2016, though the Hillary Clinton team declined. According to Bloomberg, Trump spent $44 million on Facebook ads between June and November 2016, compared to Clinton’s $28 million. Google and Twitter also offer to send employees to help with ads for major political campaigns, but it is unknown if they will cease this practice as well. —  BBC

4. The Justice Department may delay its meeting with state attorneys general to discuss the potential bias of social media companies against conservatives. Attorney General Jeff Sessions initially called the meeting the same day after Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg finished their testimony in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Sessions said he wanted to discuss if tech companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter were “intentionally stifling the free exchange of ideas.” Antitrust issues were also on the agenda. The meeting, which was expected to take place next Tuesday, will likely take place at the National Association of Attorneys General meeting November 27-29. — REUTERS

Kanye West called for social media companies to do away with vanity metrics on Thursday. Should we listen? 

1. Facebook Dating launched on Thursday for users in Colombia only. The company says that online dating is culturally accepted in South America and with 30 million active Facebook users, Colombia was the ideal test market. Facebook Dating wants to differentiate itself from hookup apps like Tinder and focus on creating meaningful relationships (there’s no swiping functionality). Dating will also be an opt-in feature, live within the current Facebook app (right now, it’s only available on mobile) and will only show friends-of-friends or complete strangers to avoid the awkwardness of a friend showing up as a match. "This should be about relationships, not one-night stands,” said Nathan Sharp, Facebook Dating project manager. — TC