Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg hosted a nearly hour-long video call with U.S. civil rights leaders to discuss ongoing issues around his company’s policies as they relate to race, elections and other topics. But participants were left disappointed, according to Color of Change President Rashad Robinson, who concluded […]
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Facebook launches Venue, a new companion app for live events
Facebook has launched a new experimental application called ‘Venue’ which is aimed to make live events more interactive for viewers. The application is available for both iOS and Android users in the US. With Venue, viewers will have an additional screen where they will see curated content from experts. To […]
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Facebook launches another TikTok-inspired app called ‘Collab’
Facebook has launched a new experimental app which seems to be another take on TikTok. Called ‘Collab’, this app lets users upload videos of music they create which can be used by others on the platform. On Collab, users can create and upload short videos which will be split into three […]
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Facebook survey shows 31% of small businesses stopped operating
One-third of U.S. small businesses have stopped operating, while another 11% expect to fail in the next three months if Covid-19 conditions persist, according to an April survey. “The numbers are devastating,” said Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook Inc., which helped conduct the survey of 86,000 business owners […]
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Automated tools helping Facebook remove more hate speech, bullying
Facebook on Tuesday revealed in detail how its automated tools and technologies are curbing hate speech, adult nudity and sexual activity, violent and graphic content, and bullying and harassment on its main platform as well as Instagram. In its fifth ‘Community Standards Enforcement Report (from October 2019 through March this […]
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Facebook to pay moderators $52 million for psychological damages
Facebook has agreed to pay $52 million to its content moderators whose job has them viewing graphic and disturbing posts and videos on its platforms. In a 2018 lawsuit, third-party contractors for the company said that Facebook failed to properly protect them against severe psychological and other injuries that can […]
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Facebook announces 1000 vacancies for engineer, product developer and others
Facebook Chief Operation Officer Shreyl Sandberg on Tuesday announced the social networking giant would hire 1000 more people in Lond this year, taking to total to more than 4,000. Sandberg, during a visit here, said that more than half the jobs would be high-skilled tech roles in software engineering, product […]
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Vodafone joins Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, leaves Facebook’s Libra organisation
Britain’s Vodafone Group PLC has left the entity that manages the Facebook Inc led effort to launch Libra, a global digital currency, Libra Association said on Tuesday. The association has seen an exodus of its backers including financial companies PayPal Holdings Inc, Visa and Mastercard Inc amid regulatory scrutiny. Facebook […]
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Mark Zuckerberg ends annual personal challenge for a decade-long one
Mark Zuckerberg’s New Year’s resolution: No more public New Year’s resolutions. The Facebook Inc. chief executive officer, who in January usually shares a “personal challenge” for the coming year, said Thursday he’s forgoing that tradition in 2020. Instead, Zuckerberg said he will “take a longer term focus” this decade to prioritize projects […]
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Facebook unveils 4 new privacy features: You should be using them all
Facebook is one of the most widely used social media platforms in the world. According to the German statistics portal Statista, as of the third quarter of 2019, Facebook has 2.45 billion monthly active users. With Facebook gaining more popularity every passing day, security becomes an important issue. Facebook has now updated […]
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‘WhatsApp from Facebook’ status arrives for new users in 2020
Taking another step towards unifying all the apps, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp – under one umbrella, Facebook is adding the ‘WhatsApp from Facebook’ for new users on the messaging platform in 2020. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed his plans of integrating chat services – WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram – to let users message […]
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Facebook,eBay pledge to better tackle fake reviews on their platforms
Facebook and eBay have promised to better identify, probe and respond to fake and misleading reviews, Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said on Wednesday after pressing the online platforms to tackle the issue. Customer reviews have become an integral part of online shopping on several websites and apps but […]
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Facebook issues corrective label on user’s post under new Singapore fake news law
Facebook said on Saturday it had issued a correction notice on a user’s post at the request of the Singapore government, but called for a measured approach to the implementation of a new “fake news” law in the city-state. “Facebook is legally required to tell you that the Singapore government says […]
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Instagram, Facebook down for users globally
Instagram and Facebook apps are currently not working for users globally. While most features of both Facebook and Instagram are working, the main issue appears to be the feed not loading. On Instagram, features like Stories and the main feed are working fine. But the feed of user profiles aren’t […]
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Facebook acquires Beat Games, studio behind popular VR game Beat Saber
Facebook Inc. is acquiring the studio behind Beat Saber, a popular virtual-reality game that mixes music, lightsabers and dancing into one experience, for an undisclosed price. Beat Games will join Facebook’s Oculus gaming studio, the social-media company said Tuesday, and will operate independently out of its current base in Prague. The […]