Tag: facebook
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Facebook Messenger Kids Launched, a Standalone App for Children Under 13
The social media giant is launching a messaging app for children to chat with their parents and with friends approved by their parents. The free app is aimed at kids under 13, who can’t yet have their own accounts under Facebook’s rules, though they often do. Messenger Kids comes with a slew of controls for…
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Facebook Wants Your Nude Pictures to Stop Revenge Porn
Facebook is testing a new method to stop revenge porn that requires you to send your own nudes to yourself via the social network’s Messenger app. This strategy would help Facebook to create a digital fingerprint for the picture and mark it as non-consensual explicit media. So, if a relationship goes sour, you could take…
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WhatsApp Status, Instagram Stories Now at Over 300 Million Daily Active Users Each
As Facebook posted an increase in its daily and monthly active users in the third quarter financial results, the features of its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp also recorded growth with active users touching the 300 million mark. On Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that ‘Instagram Stories’ and ‘WhatsApp Status’ both now have 300 million…
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Facebook Testing Screen-Sharing Feature for Live Broadcast
Facebook has been spotted testing a feature that lets you share your screen directly, in real time. The new addition gives Facebook users another reason to use its Live broadcast functionality and eliminates the need for any third-party software to share the screen on the social network. You need to install an extension on Chrome…
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Facebook Now Lets You Directly Post Instagram Stories
After testing in Portugal last month, the option to syndicate Instagram Stories to Facebook Stories has now also appeared for US users. Facebook has also confirmed that the feature is being officially rolled out for everyone around the world, TechCrunch reported on Friday. “You now have the option to share your Instagram Stories to your…
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Facebook to Add More Human Review to Ad System.
Facebook Inc will add “more human review and oversight” to its ad-buying system, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said on Wednesday, responding to rising criticism that automated processes have allowed people to buy discriminatory ads. Sandberg said in a post on her Facebook page the company would have more manual review of the targeting options…
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Facebook Testing Snooze Feature to Temporarily Mute Friends Without Unfollowing
Facebook is working on letting users hit the “snooze” button when they need to take a temporary break from posts by friends, pages or groups without unfriending, unfollowing or leaving them. “We are testing new ways to give people control over their News Feeds so they can stay connected with the stories they find most…
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Facebook Allows Advertisers to Buy In-Stream Ads
In a bid to give advertisers more flexibility and control to buy video ads to meet their target audience, Facebook has introduced an option to deliver ads on in-stream placements in videos on the social networking platform. The move also gives advertisers an option to specify whether they would like their in-stream ads to appear…