Facebook launches a ‘Plus’ subscription that gives you extra features
Meta has announced the launch of a new subscription service called 'Plus' for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The subscriptions will offer additional features for a monthly fee, with Instagram Plus priced at $3.99 and WhatsApp Plus at $2.99. Additionally, Meta is testing new AI-focused subscription plans that will introduce usage limits for free users of Meta AI.
- ▪Meta is rolling out a subscription service called 'Plus' for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
- ▪Instagram Plus will cost $3.99 per month and WhatsApp Plus will cost $2.99 per month.
- ▪New features include extended story durations and enhanced interaction options for subscribers.
The Verge files mainly under tech. We currently carry 578 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | The Verge |
| Canonical URL | https://www.theverge.com/tech/938500/facebook-whatsapp-instagram-meta-ai-subscriptions |
| Publication time | 2026-05-27T16:03:42-04:00 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-27T20:08:04.392Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-27T20:08:04.392Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | Wo6FffeKUa5Q |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
TechCloseTechPosts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.FollowFollowSee All TechNewsCloseNewsPosts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.FollowFollowSee All NewsMetaCloseMetaPosts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.FollowFollowSee All MetaFacebook launches a ‘Plus’ subscription that gives you extra featuresWhatsApp, Instagram, and Meta AI are getting paid subscriptions, too.WhatsApp, Instagram, and Meta AI are getting paid subscriptions, too.by Jay PetersCloseJay PetersSenior ReporterPosts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.FollowFollowSee All by Jay PetersMay 27, 2026, 8:03 PM UTCLinkShareGiftIllustration by Nick…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at The Verge.
Discussion
0 commentsMore from The Verge
