Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are starting to come back online after a widespread outage lasted more than six hours on Monday, disrupting communications for the company’s roughly 3 billion users. “To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we’re sorry. We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and …
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The person behind a leak of internal Facebook research that served as the basis for a series of news reports about the harm the social network’s platforms cause, publicly revealed herself on 60 Minutes on Sunday. She is a former algorithmic product manager at Facebook named Frances Haugen. Haugen, who worked at Facebook for about two years, told 60 Minutes …
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Facebook on Wednesday released its internal research regarding the impact of Instagram on teens after a Wall Street Journal investigation raised serious concerns about the photo-sharing app’s impact on the mental health of teens, including girls’ body image. The report, based on a “trove of internal communications” reviewed by the Journal, prompted US lawmakers to press the world’s largest social network …
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Facebook plans to release internal research on Instagram to Congress and the public after a Wall Street Journal report earlier this month raised serious concerns about the photo-sharing app’s impact on the mental health of teens. The social network will share the research in the “next few days,” said Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president of global affairs, during an online …
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Instagram is pausing the development of Instagram Kids, a dedicated service it’s building for children, in order to spend time focusing on developing parental supervision tools. It also intends to use the hiatus to persuade the wider world that the an Instagram app for kids is, in fact, a good and necessary thing. The news that Instagram was working on …
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Facebook on Saturday criticized a series of Wall Street Journal articles about the social media platform’s negative effects on users, saying the articles contained “deliberate mischaracterizations” and “conferred egregiously false motives to Facebook’s leadership and employees.” The series, based on information culled from internal Facebook documents and online employee discussions, reported that the company was aware of the “platform’s ill …
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Facebook‘s internal research into Instagram has raised serious concerns about the photo-sharing app’s impact on the mental health of teens, prompting US lawmakers to press the world’s largest social network for more answers. “As the internet — and social media specifically — becomes increasingly engrained in children and teens’ lives, we are deeply concerned that your company continues to fail …
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Instagram is building a new feature that would let users customize their feed, according to TechCrunch. The feature would reportedly let you “Favorite” up to 30 accounts, which would show up in your feed before other (non-favorite) accounts. On social media apps like Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, followed accounts accumulate quickly, and feeds can quickly turn into a soup of …
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Instagram will now require all users to share their birthday with the company, according to a post from the Facebook-owned social media site on Aug. 26. The app update is meant to pave the way for new safety features aimed at younger users. If you haven’t already informed it of your birthday, Instagram will start to ask you for that information …
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Facebook on Wednesday said it’ll be “sharing messages across Facebook in both English and Spanish” about the US Food and Drug Administration’s full approval of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. On Monday, Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine became the first to win full approval by the FDA. “This is part of our ongoing efforts to connect people with reliable information,” Facebook said in …
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