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Conspiracy theories have been floating around since coronavirus started to take hold. But, one Manchester, England woman was unknowingly tangled in this web of lies. Sarah-Louise Cooper told BuzzFeed News that her friends informed her that her pictures were being used to spread a fake story about the coronavirus pandemic on Facebook. “Every single photo is mine,” Cooper said […]
Facebook has apologized after its platform wrongly translated Xi Jinping, the name of the Chinese leader, from Burmese to an offensive English word. The company became aware of the mistranslation when Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto civilian leader of Myanmar, took to Facebook to write about Mr. Xi’s two-day visit to her […]
Sacha Baron Cohen never misses an opportunity at slamming Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. When introducing the video package for Jojo Rabbit at this year’s Golden Globes, Cohen read off a piece of paper, saying, “It’s the story of a child who spreads naughty propaganda and only has imaginary friends. His name is Mark Zuckerberg. Oh wait, this is […]
Facebook users have discovered that the platform’s iPhone app has a bug that allows camera access while they scroll through their feeds. On Sunday, Twitter user @JoshuaMaddux shared a screen recording of the Facebook app on his iPhone, where he showed that the camera appeared behind the Facebook app while he was using it. “Found […]
On Monday, Facebook unveiled a rebrand, and by that we mean they just typed FACEBOOK with caps-lock on. At times you wonder if some of your co-workers are actually working. This rebrand, which should probably be in quotes but whatever pick your battles, was announced in a company blog post that further stated a new logo […]
Facebook is banning the inappropriate use of emojis. In July, Facebook updated the language section of its Community Standards policy to address acceptable sexual expressions on its social media sites. These new terms went into effect this Sept. and they prohibit pairing an emoji, such as the eggplant or peach emojis, with sexual statements. Doing so is now considered “sexual solicitation” and can […]
If you’ve been seeing a growing number of fake posts floating down your Instagram feed, worry not — Facebook wants to put it a stop to it. The social media giant announced Monday that its users will begin to see labels that read “false information” on posts deemed false by fact-checkers. Facebook users and Instagrammers […]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been pretty busy ever since President Donald Trump threatened to sue his company back in June. The 35-year-old has reportedly been hosting “informal talks and off-the-record dinners,” with right-wing figures since July, according to Politico. He’s been talking with conservative pundits and lawmakers about issues such as free speech and […]
Twitter’s direct-messaging is down, and if you haven’t noticed you’re apparently not alone. According to the site Down Detector, which reports on real-time outages, users began reporting issues on Wednesday about Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook not functioning properly. Twitter’s direct-messaging was widely affected, according to the complaints, prompting people to turn to traditional tweets to make […]
Facebook has explained why its artificial intelligence system was unable to detect the livestream video of the mosque shootings in New Zealand that left 50 people dead last week. Guy Rosen, the vice president of product management at Facebook, explained why the social media company failed to detect the video in a blog post Wednesday. […]
