Shelby Ruth, a 20-year-old Canadian, started online dating because it was a quick way to meet new people. So when Facebook launched its new dating feature in Canada last year, she signed up because the social network made it easy to do. Compared with Tinder, Ruth noticed, users share more profile information on Facebook Dating. …
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Facebook is considering a test to hide likes on News Feed posts. The company already tested a similar move on Instagram in August as a way to help break users’ fixation with getting likes on their pictures. Data miner Jane Manchun Wong discovered that Facebook is experimenting with the change in its Android app Monday. The company said Monday it’s considering …
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Facebook is reportedly developing a new messaging app aimed at helping users share more information more often with their closest friends. The app, called Threads, is meant to be a companion to Instagram, The Verge reported Monday. Threads is designed to automatically share intimate details such as “location, speed and battery life,” as well as other typical social media posts …
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It’s the social media hoax that won’t die. Since the beginning of the week, celebrities, politicians and everyday folks have fallen for a ruse about supposed changes coming to Instagram’s privacy policies. The practical joke declares IG is implementing a “rule where they can use your photos.” Though the head of the Facebook-owned service has debunked the hoax post, people …
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Facebook’s plan to merge WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram could hamper any attempt to break up the social media giant, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission believes. Joseph Simmons told the Financial Times that all options are on the table as it conducts an antitrust investigation of the company, but combing the three major brands could complicate things. “If they’re …
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Instagram will now let users flag dubious posts for “false information” to trigger review by third-party fact-checkers, the company said on Thursday. The Facebook-owned platform will begin rolling out the feature immediately in the US. The rest of the world will get to try out the new tool by the end of August. In a tweet, head of Instagram Adam …
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Fan of Instagram’s Boomerang feature? Then you’re in luck, as Instagram seems set to add a lot more to the filter. According to noted app researcher Jane Manchun Wong, Facebook’s photo-sharing service looks to be readying a number of new updates to the popular video mode. Among the new options are: Hold, which adds pauses to the end of the …
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Lyndi Cohen’s Instagram photos illustrate the power of healthy living. The Australian nutritionist features meals she’s prepared for the week and moves gracefully through yoga poses. She also shares side-by-side bikini shots to show how glamorous photos on the social network diverge from real life. Still, the 29-year-old grapples with an unhealthy habit: obsessing over how many “likes” her Instagram …
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Instagram, Facebook and YouTube could face huge fines for failing to remove toxic online videos as part of a crackdown by the UK government on harmful social media content. The government said on Monday that under new rules due to be introduced next year, tech companies would have to pay up to 5% of their revenue or even face restriction …
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Instagram said a hate-filled manifesto linked to the El Paso massacre suspect wasn’t first uploaded to the Facebook-owned site as suggested by the owner of the extremist site 8chan where the document was discovered. A spokeswoman for Facebook said that on Saturday the company disabled an Instagram account tied to the suspected gunman in the El Paso, Texas, attack earlier that …
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