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In addition to running up credit card debt and hearing covers of the same half-dozen songs for weeks on end, the holiday season also affords you the opportunity to be scammed. As always, be overly cautious and suspicious of everyone. This year, as was also the case in 2015 and 2018, the Better Business Bureau […]
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 […]
Instagram is expanding its test to hide likes. During Friday’s WIRED25 event, Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri announced a number of U.S. users would see the Instagram like counts disappear as soon as next week. Mosseri did not provide details on the scale of the test, simply stating it wouldn’t be “the whole U.S. at once.” “There’s a couple of […]
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 […]
Twitter will no longer run political advertisements, CEO Jack Dorsey announced Wednesday. We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought. Why? A few reasons…🧵 — jack 🌍🌏🌎 (@jack) October 30, 2019 “A political message earns reach when people decide […]
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 […]
A Chick-fil-A employee in Virginia went above and beyond his job description to salvage a woman’s day. Last week, Shauna Hall shared a story on her Facebook page about how a Chick-fil-A worker rescued her phone from a storm drain. According to Hall’s story, she was exiting her car with her son in the restaurant’s parking lot, when her phone fell into the […]
Comfortingly, Facebook Inc. has agreed to acquire tech startup CTRL-Labs, a company known for a wristband that translates neuron activity into computer screen motions. “CTRL-Labs’s technology is an innovative input that Facebook hopes will be used to significantly improve the upcoming Facebook AR/VR experiences a few years down the road to fundamentally improve the user […]
