Tag Archives: Posts
Facebook plans to clarify when pro-Bloomberg posts come from staffers
Thanks to Mike Bloomberg, Facebook wants to make it more obvious when paid campaign staffers share posts promoting candidates, CNBC reports. This is a direct response to Bloomberg paying organizers to post on social media, but it could apply to any c...
Facebook will soon hide likes and reaction counts on posts
Facebook could soon remove one of the most contested features that people have been butting heads about since the social media giant’s inception.Jane Manchun Wong, a white hat hacker who is known for...
An old Instagram hoax is back, and it’s duping celebrities
An Instagram hoax that first circulated in 2012 is back, and celebrities from Usher to Waka Flocka Flame, Julianne Moore, Julia Roberts and Rob Lowe have allegedly fallen for it. The post claims Instagram is changing its rules and everything you've e...
Instagram users can now flag false content
Beginning today, Instagram users can report content that they believe to be false. Instagram will use those flags to better understand misinformation on the platform and to train its AI to spot false content. In time, Instagram will use the feedback,...
WhatsApp could soon let you share posts on Facebook, Instagram, Gmail or Google Photos
WhatsApp is trialing a new feature that could support cross-platform sharing, letting users share their WhatsApp status with other apps like Facebook, Instagram, Gmail or Google Photos.A WhatsApp...
WhatsApp could soon let you share posts on Facebook, Instagram, Gmail or Google Photos
WhatsApp is trialing a new feature that could support cross-platform sharing, letting users share their WhatsApp status with other apps like Facebook, Instagram, Gmail or Google Photos.A WhatsApp...
Facebook will rank comments to make conversations more meaningful
Facebook wants to make conversations on public posts more meaningful. Today, it will start ranking comments to promote those that are most relevant to users. It will give priority to comments that have interactions from the original poster, as well a...
Facebook contractors categorize your private posts to train AI
At any given time, Facebook has thousands of third-party staffers around the world looking at and labeling Facebook and Instagram posts. The work is meant to help train AI and to inform new products. But because the contractors see users' public and...
Instagram’s redesigned Explore tab sorts everything into topics
As if you weren't already spending hours falling down the rabbit hole that is Instagram's Explore tab, the site is making a few tweaks that'll make it even easier to spend time getting lost in other people's pics. Announced at Facebook's F8 event ear...