Remember those Facebook messages you received years ago? Check back far enough in your inbox and you’ll probably find they’re still there. Unless, that is, they were from CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook deleted messages Zuckerberg sent on the platform from the inboxes of people who received them, according to TechCrunch. The news site said it …
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Apple, Google, and now Facebook — each will let developers turn your phone into a window to another world. Just point your camera at a poster, and computer-generated characters and objects can augment your world. Case in point: Facebook app’s built-in camera can now unlock a secret little portal inside any poster from the new Steven Spielberg film Ready Player …
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Facebook’s fact-checking partners tasked with fighting fake news aren’t happy with their bosses at the social media giant. Top brass at several news outlets hired to help clean up Facebook’s misinformation problem in the wake of the 2016 presidential election say Facebook hasn’t been transparent about the effectiveness of their efforts and has ignored requests to improve the process, according …
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Facebook introduced a new data policy and terms of service on Wednesday that aim to better explain the information it gathers on you, but the company says it isn’t collecting anything new. “These updates are about making things clearer,” wrote Erin Egan, Facebook’s chief privacy officer, and Ashley Beringer, deputy general counsel in a blog post about the updates. “We’re not …
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The Australian government has confirmed it will open an official investigation into the Facebook data scandal that saw data from 87 million Facebook user accounts shared with Cambridge Analytica. While the majority of users affected by the Cambridge Analytica fiasco were based in the US, Australia was the 10th worst country hit, according to figures released Thursday by Facebook. It’s …
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Facebook estimates that the data of no less than 87 million people was obtained by Cambridge Analytica in what’s become quite the scandal. But now it has gone to another level. Tinder has been taken from us. Kind of. In an attempt to prevent another Analytica-gate, Facebook on Wednesday implemented new measures to regulate the data third-party apps can use and …
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Amid increased pressure in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook has released a new tool designed to help you more easily manage the third party apps that have access to your data. Previously if you wanted to delete third-party apps from your Facebook page you had to delete them one by one. But now it’s possible to delete …
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Snapchat is all set to introduce group video calling and story mentions, a feature it tested last month, parent company Snap announced Tuesday. Up to 16 people can now take part in group video chats on the app, with up to 32 people joining in voice calls. To mention them in a Snapchat story, just type out their username starting …
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Facebook Spaces – Spend Quality Time Together, Wherever You Are We’re excited to announce that this week we’re rolling out new, fully redesigned avatars in Facebook Spaces that are more expressive and customizable than ever! Get a preview of the new avatar styles with a new Facebook Spaces video! Posted by Facebook Spaces on Monday, April 2, 2018 The Facebook …
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Apple CEO Tim Cook maybe be unfriending Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg after he hears some of the quotes from a new interview Zuckerberg did with Vox.com editor at large Ezra Klein. In the just-published interview, Zuckerberg responds strongly to Cook’s criticisms of Facebook’s business model, which in turn come from an upcoming MSNBC interview, which is set to air on …
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