Congress party wrote a letter to the CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg on Friday wherein they sought an internal inquiry on fake news and inflammatory content being spread on the social media giant under Bharatiya Janata Party’s tenure. A letter has been written by the social media head of the […]
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Facebook changes its name to ‘Meta’: Know everything about
Facebook is no longer Facebook. It’s Meta. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Facebook announced the news at the company’s Connect event last night. The change of the name however does not apply to its individual platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. It will only be applicable to the parent company that […]
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Facebook refocusing on its services for serving ‘young adults’
American tech-giant Facebook announced that the company is refocusing on its services for the ‘young adults’ after concerns about declining usage among teens and young adults were raised. As per The Verge, the comment by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was made on a call with investors on Monday where the investors spoke about Facebooks’ concerns about declining usage among teens and young adults. “So much […]
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Facebook planning to change its name
Social media giant Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name next week. As per The Verge, the company is planning to change its name to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter. The name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans […]
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Elon Musk says Google and Facebook are places where talent goes to die
Elon Musk has yet again taken a dig at big tech companies including Google and Facebook. Musk, who doesn’t reserve his comments about anything on Twitter, targeted the Big Tech companies including Facebook Google in a tweet. He had strongly voiced his opinion against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg post the […]
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Mark Zuckerberg denies Facebook puts profit over users’ safety
Facebook Chief executive officer (CEO) Mark Zuckerberg has rejected accusations that the social network prioritises profit over its users’ safety. This comes after former company product manager Frances Haugen told a congressional testimony on Tuesday that the social network was allegedly aware it inflicted harm on the mental health of teenagers but did not do much to […]
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Facebook says service disruption caused by configuration changes on backbone routers
Facebook has said that the disruption of its operation was caused by configuration changes on backbone routers. Facebook, in a statement, said its service is now back online. “Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication. This disruption to […]
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WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram are all down
Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, popular apps owned by parent company Facebook are experiencing outages in many regions and seem to not be working on either Web or their respective smartphone apps. A number of people have reported that the instant messaging platform and the social media applications are not working […]
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Facebook removes ability to view list of friends for accounts from Afghanistan
Facebook has temporarily removed the ability to view the list of friends for accounts from Afghanistan in an attempt to protect Afghan users from possible reprisal from the Taliban, head of the Facebook security policy Nathaniel Gleicher said. He stressed that after a week of hard work, Facebook developed a one-click tool […]
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Facebook takes cloud gaming to Apple devices through web app
Social media giant Facebook is rolling out its budding cloud gaming service from Friday for its iOS users. According to The Verge, Facebook’s nascent cloud gaming service for iPhones and iPads will be provided through a web app. Users will be able to add it to their home screens like […]
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Facebook’s new feature for Portal lets users dress up as Harry Potter characters
Facebook’s video calling device Portal is getting a ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ crossover that will allow users to dress up as characters from the play using augmented reality technology. As per The Verge, the AR masks that transform you into a character, which are powered by Facebook’s Spark AR technology, will also match […]
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Facebook’s first smartwatch with two cameras, heart rate monitor to arrive next summer
Tech giant Facebook could launch its first smartwatch in the market soon. The social media company is gearing up to unveil its smartwatch with dual cameras and heart rate monitor by next summer. As per The Verge, the upcoming device will feature a display with two cameras that can be detached from the wrist for taking pictures and videos […]
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Twitter may roll out Facebook-style reactions
Microblogging site Twitter may add new emoticons to augment its formerly star-shaped, currently heart-shaped Like button, according to app researcher Jane Manchun Wong. As reported by The Verge, the assets Wong found – which have been reliable predictions of future features in the past – show ‘cheer,’ ‘hmm,’ ‘sad,’ and ‘haha’ emoji reactions, though […]
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Users can now hide like counts on Instagram, Facebook
Instagram and Facebook users can now hide their like counts from both new and previously posted photos and videos. As per The Verge, after years of testing on both platforms, Facebook and Instagram have settled on an opt-in experience for hiding like counts to allow people to disable seeing them across all posts and an option to hide their own public like counts from others. Both social media […]
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Facebook, Twitter to be blocked in India on May 26? Know Everything about
Social media platforms Facebook, Twitter and Instagram may face a ban in India if they do not comply with the new Intermediary Guidelines. The deadline to accept the guidelines set by the government will end on May 25 but so far none of the platforms including WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter has […]