Meta makes end-to-end encryption a default on Facebook Messenger
The META logo is seen at the Vivatech show in Paris in Paris, France on June 14, 2023. Meta is rolling out end-to-end encryption for calls and messages across its…
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News anchors targeted by deepfake scammers on Facebook
A phone screen showing a social media video marked as an "altered video," in front of a fact-checked image of news anchors where the claim about them was found to be…
Meta rolls out paid ad-free option for European Facebook and Insta users after privacy ruling
The Instagram logo is seen on a cell phone in Boston, USA, Friday, Oct. 14, 2022. Facebook and Instagram users in Europe are getting the option to pay for ad-free…
The big cheese of gurugram
Express News Service
George Bernard Shaw had said with his typical Irish sense of humour: “There is no love more sincere than the love of food.” It certainly was the case for the original Gurgaon Foodie, founder and…
Facebook and Instagram users in Europe could get ad-free subscription option, WSJ reports
A view of the mobile phone app logos for, from left, Facebook and Instagram in New York, Oct. 5, 2021. Meta plans to give European Facebook and Instagram users the…
Here’s how you can have multiple personal profiles on Facebook | Digit
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Meta has announced the ability to create multiple personal profiles on Facebook.
This feature is currently rolling out globally.
The company is planning to expand Messenger support for additional profiles in…
Novelist and blogger Cory Doctorow pens a manual for destroying Big Tech
By Associated Press
As a leading blogger in the pre-Substack era, novelist and public-interest technologist Cory Doctorow often warned that Big Tech was rendering of cyberspace a polluted, dystopian, crassly…
Meta to end Facebook news service in Europe’s biggest markets
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Meta Platforms Inc. plans to stop promoting news content for people in three major European countries,…
WhatsApp now lets you send instant video messages, here’s how | Digit
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, has made an exciting announcement regarding an upcoming update on WhatsApp. This latest update will introduce a new feature for WhatsApp users to share short, personal videos directly within their…
Meta’s Election Research Opens More Questions Than It Answers
In the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, Meta set out to conduct a series of ambitious studies on the effects its platforms—Facebook and Instagram—have on the political beliefs of US-based users. Independent researchers from…