Facebook has been moving forward with plans to integrate messaging on Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp, but those efforts are still far from over. Facebook Messenger users can already reach people through Instagram direct message and vice versa without downloading a new app. The company also wants to make cross-app communication between Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, …
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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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AlgorithmWatch, a German research and advocacy group, shut down its Instagram monitoring project after what it says was a “thinly veiled threat” from Facebook. But the social network says it made no such threat and that the group’s project ran afoul of Facebook policies around data collection. The advocacy group says it’s “committed to evaluating and shedding light on … …
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Instagram added the ability to limit comments and DM requests from people who don’t follow you, or who only started following you recently, it said in a blog post Wednesday. You can toggle the Limits feature within Instagram’s privacy settings. The Facebook-owned social media platform developed Limits due to creators and public figures experiencing sudden spikes of comments and DM …
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Facebook said on Tuesday that it is launching a tool called Sensitive Content Control on Instagram. The feature is designed to give people more control over how much sensitive content appears in the Explore part of Instagram’s app. “You can think of sensitive content as posts that don’t necessarily break our rules, but could potentially be upsetting to some people — …
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Face filters on Instagram and Snapchat are far and away the most mainstream use of what we call augmented reality. We’ve already spent years contorting our faces, surrounding them with butterflies or pinning stuff to our heads to find out which Disney villain best represents us. However, it wasn’t until I got my hands on the new iPad Pro and played …
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Instagram said Wednesday that it’s releasing a way for users to translate text in Stories, a feature that lets people post content that vanishes in 24 hours. The introduction of translations to Stories shows that Facebook-owned Instagram continues to double down on content that disappears. Stories is already a popular format on Instagram, and introducing translations is one way the …
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Facebook is creating new programs that’ll dole out more than $1 billion to creators who make content for the social network and for its photo-focused service, Instagram, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post Wednesday. “We want to build the best platforms for millions of creators to make a living, so we’re creating new programs to invest over $1 …
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Instagram’s new feature aims to help you check your info quickly and easily so you can recover your account if you’ve been hacked. Called the “Security Checkup,” the program walks you through steps such as checking your login information, updating your contact info, confirming which accounts share your info and reviewing your profile. The social media service owned by Facebook …
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Influencers and advertisers in Norway will soon have to label photos that have been retouched, according to new regulations passed as an amendment to the country’s Marketing Act last month, Vice reported Tuesday. Norway’s king will determine when the new rule will go into effect. Any ads where someone’s shape, size or skin has been altered will have to include …
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