Facebook will soon depend on Instagram for the majority of its ad revenue growth
When Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger announced last month they were stepping away from Facebook, there was a collective gasp: Instagram’s future was suddenly at risk. So is Facebook’s. So…
Facebook new features against fake and harmful data
Facebook is rolling out a broad set of changes aimed at misinformation, harmful communities, impersonation and low-quality material across Facebook, Instagram and Messenger. The company presented the work as an expansion of…
Facebook confirms it’s working on an AI voice assistant for Portal and Oculus products
Facebook has confirmed that it is developing voice-controlled artificial intelligence for its hardware products, reviving an assistant strategy after an earlier experiment inside Messenger came to an end. The project was first…
Facebook, on Mueller Day, drops bad Instagram news in a month-old blog post
As Washington focused on the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on April 18, Facebook quietly changed a security announcement it had published almost a month earlier. The added paragraph contained…
Technology is ‘a crime scene’ and Facebook ‘broke democracy,’ journalist who exposed Cambridge Analytica says
Investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr delivered one of TED2019’s most confrontational speeches on April 15, arguing that the systems built by major technology companies had helped create a crisis for democratic accountability. Speaking…
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp hit by second outage within a month
Facebook and its family of services suffered another widespread interruption on Sunday, leaving people around the world unable to refresh social feeds or send messages. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger were all…
Facebook to use AI to respect the dead
Facebook is changing the way it handles accounts belonging to people who have died, combining artificial intelligence with new controls for friends and family. The goal is to prevent painful recommendations while…
Mark Zuckerberg defends Facebook after Christchurch terror attacks were livestreamed
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg defended the basic design of Facebook Live in an April 4, 2019 interview, less than three weeks after a gunman broadcast the first of two terrorist attacks…
Facebook and Instagram may be forced to remove Likes for users under 18
Facebook and Instagram could be required to rethink familiar engagement features for users under 18 under a draft privacy code published by the United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office. The proposal does not…
Facebook stops asking new users for email passwords
Facebook says it is ending an account-verification method that asked some new users to provide the password to an outside email account. The prompt drew immediate criticism from security professionals, who argued…