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Facebook announced yesterday that it would be taking own even more accounts as it sought to prevent election interference by disinformation agents on its platforms. This included Facebook proper, and Instagram. The firm was made a...
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Twitter this week took down 10, 000 accounts encouraging voter suppression, Reuters revealed this week. The firm took down 10, 000 accounts which appeared to be run by individuals who were previously voters of the US Democratic p...
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Remember Facebook Stories? It’s OK if you don’t, Facebook still does, and it’s adding new features to it anyway. Frequent Facebook reverse engineer Jane Wong has discovered new Facebook Story features embedded in...
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Facebook today announced the addition of a new head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, who will take over from the now departed founders of the product as lead. “In his role leading Instagram, Adam will oversee all functions of th...
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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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WhatsApp is extending its reach in Indi to include the featurephones JioPhone and JioPhone 2, even as the firm comes under fire for the role its app has played in murders spurred on by fake news and malicious rumour mongers across...
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Instagram is adding a quick emoji bar to its app. Now, with an update to iOs and Android, whenever the keyboard is invoked in comments, users will be able to see their most widely used emoji. The feature has apparently been in pu...
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Telegram for Windows Phone has been updated to version 3.3 for users still on Windows Phone 8.1 or Windows 10 Mobile. The app incorporates updates to the newly added authentication feature — Passport. For those uninformed, T...
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Instagram is rolling out a new guide for parents to get a handle on how their children use Instagram. The use of social media has created a barrier between parents and children who may often be exposed to objectionable content, cy...
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Twitter is bringing a huge change to its desktop web app in the coming months. As per an announcement made on the eponymous site, the desktop web app will be replaced with the current progressive web app offering. Twitter now offe...
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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...