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Instagram has just launched an update to its web apps today, both on desktop and mobile. With this update, Instagram web users now have the capability to receive notifications from any supported browser. This includes comments, ne...
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Facebook today announced that it would be bringing its Community Help Tool to its lightweight Facebook Lite android app. Community Help is a tool which allows users to share information in the aftermath of a crisis like the recent...
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Facebook has been contending with the use of its platform by those with suicidal ideation and mental illnesses, and today the firm shared some of the ways it was using AI to triage posts and facilitate help and support for them. T...
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WindowsArea.de reports that WhatsApp is in the process of rolling out group voice and video calling to WhatsApp users on Windows Phone. Previously available to WhatsApp beta users, an update to the mainstream Windows Phone app b...
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Facebook has been taking steps to help tackle the conflict in Myanmar this year. The firm has been trying to stifle the spread of “hate and misinformation” on its platform and has engaged new technology to identify hat...
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Microsoft and Facebook met with the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED) and the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) to discuss election security is...
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Social media firms Facebook and Twitter announced new actions it was taken against state-sponsored “inauthentic” accounts. These are accounts that were at their core helmed to sow division and/or troll users of the net...
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Facebook is reportedly assigning a trust score to users who report news on the site. This is so the firm can weed out users who report credible news simply because they disagree with it on ideological reasons or who are just troll...
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Facebook was reportedly working on an AI voice assistant along the lines of Cortana and Google Assistant. While the firm previously launched M in Messenger, the text-based assistant has failed to take off over the years it’s...
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Facebook last year launched an app for Messenger geared towards children. Today, Messenger for Kids has now opened up a little to allow for the addition of new friends via friend requests, albeit in its own unique way. This can be...
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Social Media platforms left and right are both pivoting to and increasing their focus on video. Facebook is one of those companies and has just made another large purchase towards that. Today, Facebook purchased video startup, Vi...