You can take back what you said, no matter how long ago. At least on Telegram. The encrypted messaging app on Sunday said it’ll let users unsend anything, taking a strong stand on privacy. The delete button allows you to unsend messages in a one-on-one chat from both the sender’s and receiver’s devices. And there’s …
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Facebook experienced an almost day-long outage on Wednesday. Facebook’s outage affected a near 2 billion people, with their problems starting around 9 a.m. PT Wednesday morning. The outage affected users mainly in the US and Europe, but also affected users in South America, Australia and Asia. The outage was also felt in apps and companies owned by Facebook, most notably …
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Facebook, which has been embroiled in a series of scandals, is losing two more top executives as it focuses on building a more “privacy-focused social platform.” On Thursday, the company announced that Chief Product Officer Chris Cox and Chris Daniels, who heads Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp, are leaving. The leadership shuffle comes a week after Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark …
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Facebook’s daylong outage has finally ended. The troubles first hit the social network — which has more than 2 billion users around the world — around 9 a.m. PT Wednesday, according to outage tracking site Downdetector. At this point on Thursday, more than 24 hours later, users have by and large regained full access. On Thursday, Facebook blamed the problem on …
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If you’re using a knock-off version of WhatsApp, your account might be temporarily banned from the platform. In its FAQ, the Facebook-owned messaging app says that people using modified versions of the app like WhatsApp Plus and GB WhatsApp will receive an in-app notification that their account is temporarily banned. “WhatsApp doesn’t support these third-party apps because we can’t validate …
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Facebook, which has been under fire over privacy concerns, is doubling down on private messaging. “I believe the future of communication will increasingly shift to private, encrypted services where people can be confident what they say to each other stays secure and their messages and content won’t stick around forever,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post Wednesday. “This …
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BlackBerry on Wednesday filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Twitter, accusing the social network of illegally using the former phone giant’s mobile messaging technology. Calling Twitter a “relative newcomer,” the lawsuit accuses the microblogging site of co-opting BlackBerry’s technology for use in several services, including the main Twitter app and Twitter Ads, the companies advertising platform. BlackBerry said Twitter’s alleged …
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WhatsApp’s newest feature — the ability to lock the app with Face ID or Touch ID — appears to have a major security flaw. A Reddit user discovered the issue on iOS when using the share sheet (the menu that pops up when you tap the share icon in an app) of to open WhatsApp. Unless you’ve set your app to …
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Facebook can’t seem to get through a week quietly. This week, Germany’s antitrust regulator ordered the world’s largest social network to stop combining data from the Facebook accounts of its German users with information it collects about them from other sites unless they give their OK. The Federal Cartel Office’s order covers not only Facebook’s site, but Instagram, WhatsApp and …
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Ahead of India’s national elections later this year, WhatsApp is trying to wrangle bulk messaging and fake accounts. Over the last three months, the Facebook-owned messaging has banned more than 2 million accounts each month for bulk or automated behavior. WhatsApp released a white paper on Wednesday detailing its efforts to curb this type of abuse, which can be used …
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