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Facebook suddenly started allowing political campaigns to lie in ads over the past week, and US presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has taken them to task over it. Posting an ad with a demonstrable falsehood, she aims to highl...
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Facebook’s Libra association is leaking members like a sieve. Last week, PayPal exited the organisation. Today, the Financial Times reports that more members have chosen to Lexit rather than hang around. These include Master...
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Facebook is rolling out a set of stickers and filters in response to World Mental Health Day. The firm announced that it would be releasing a “Let’s Talk” set of story filters to enable people to solicit conversa...
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Instagram has updated its apps for iOS and Android to add a new dark theme. The dark theme was first spotted in beta builds of Instagram for Android but has now rolled out to stable channels on both platforms. Users are unable to ...
by Ash
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As of today, October 7th, 2019, PlayStation 4 users will no longer be able to use Facebook to share gameplay activity or find friends. All other share features on the console will remain the same, meaning that players will still b...
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Even as iOS 13 and Android 10 roll out with dark themes in tow, WhatsApp is continuing to develop its own dark theme. The folks over at WABeta info did some digging into the new beta build of WhatsApp for Android and found some d...
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Facebook’s Libra is facing more growing pains. PayPal, one of the members of the Libra Association, has chosen to withdraw from it at this time. PayPal gave the following statement explaining its reasoning: We remain support...
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The US government is reportedly about to press Facebook this weekend; requesting it to build in a back-door to its end to end encryption so investigators can snoop on communications. The letter, obtained by Buzzfeed News ahead of ...
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Facebook has now launched a new direct messaging up to replace Direct, its previous experiment. The app, called Threads is aimed at connecting users to those in their close friends list faster. It is also very camera focused, and ...
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The US will now compel social media networks based out of the country to share encrypted user data with the UK government, a new report has revealed. The move comes as part of an information-sharing treaty between the two countrie...
by Anmol
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Back in July Instagram rolled out a feature that prevented users from seeing the exact number of likes on someone else’s post. The feature was implemented to combat a rise in mental illness due to social media. The move by I...
by Lewis White
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Facebook’s standalone Oculus Quest headset will soon provide players with the dream VR set-up: hardware-less hand tracking. Announced by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Oculus Connect 6, the hands-free headset will soon allo...